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Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You?

Posted by samzenpus on from the unseen-mechanized-eye dept.

lee1 writes "If you have a 'smart meter,' it is collecting data that can reveal when you wake up, when you leave for work and come home, when you go on vacation and when you take a shower. This data is commercially valuable and, if sold to third parties, can lead to privacy invasion on a massive scale. The California Public Utility Commission is reacting to the gas and electric company's mass installation of these meters with new proposals for strong privacy protections."

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  1. When I fart by blair1q · · Score: 0, Troll

    When I fart you can tell what I had for dinner last night.

    Is this a privacy concern?

    No?

    Damn. I was going to submit it to /.