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Tag Archives: surveillance
More on EFF lawsuit: When Smart Meters turn into spy tools
[Ed: Is this practice common throughout the utility industry nationally and internationally?] Sacramento’s electric utility turned energy data into a blunt-force tool for unchecked home surveillance. From Reclaim the NetJuly 23, 2025By Ken Macon California’s robust privacy protections are facing … Continue reading
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Tagged consumption data, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, law enforcement, lawsuit, police, public utilities code, racial profiling, Sacramento, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, SMUD, surveillance, warrantless surveillance
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“You sure drink a lot of tea” — what Smart Meters can tell about you
Graph: National Institute of Standards and Technology You Sure Drink a Lot of Tea: Smart meter data can show what’s going on in a home, because tea kettles, toasters, and other appliances have identifiable load signatures. Back in 2007, when … Continue reading
Amazon / Vector electric Smart Meter deal puts ‘how you live your life’ on web giant’s servers | ABC News
Summary from Stop Smart Meters Australia 6 September, 2020 Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of the world’s biggest retailer, and New Zealand power grid owner, Vector, have joined forces to analyse, share and monetise data generated by more than 1.6 million smart … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon Web Servoces, Australia, energy data, monetize, New Zealand, privacy, surveillance, vector
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Aclara admits Smart Meters will provide detailed information on you and your home
For years, utility companies and regulatory commissions have denied that Smart Meter “aggregate” (or bulk) customer energy data could be broken down to provide details of what is used in a home or building. And for years, security experts have … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th amendment, Aclara, aggregation, Constitution, data mining, disaggregation, Energy Atlas, energy data, energy scores, monetize, privacy, Smart Home, surveillance, UCLA
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New surveillance warning required for international websites like this
To follow up the Electronic Freedom Foundation article, this notice from WordPress was just posted on the administration page for this website: “Akismit and Privacy To help your site be compliant with GDPR and other laws requiring notification of tracking, … Continue reading
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Tagged monitoring, privacy, surveillance
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Electronic Frontier Foundation: U.S. Homeland Security new HART database to include DNA, biometrics, “relationship patterns” on citizens and foreigners
Smart Meter data will be one facet of personal information compiled on every person. DHS’s plans for future data collection and use should make us all very worried. For example, despite pushback from EFF, Georgetown, ACLU, and others, DHS believes it’s legally authorized to collect and … Continue reading
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Tagged biometrics, database, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, DNA, EFF, Electronic Freedom Foundation, ID, privacy, surveillance
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Cities are getting paid to turn street lights into spying SmartNodes
From the National Motorists Association NMA E-Newsletter #458 October 22, 2017 From guest writer, Joe Cadillic, of the MassPrivatal blog [Links in original article] The future of privacy in big cities is bleak—cities are now getting paid to convert street lights … Continue reading
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Tagged CityTouch, Los Angeles, Philips Lighting, smart, SmartNode, street lights, surveillance
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New Congress bill to finally require “basic” security for IoT devices purchased by the government…but not for the public
And then there are Smart Meters, with direct access to the electric grid. It’s scary to realize that these are the national decisionmakers. From CBS Local 4, Colorado Is your refrigerator a national security risk? By Shaun Boyd September 12, 2017 … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Cory Gardner, firewalls, hacking, IoT, security, surveillance
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Economist: The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data
From the Economist Regulating the internet giants: The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules May 6, 2017 A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust … Continue reading
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Tagged antitrust, customers, data, surveillance
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