That is typical, actually I think a lot of posts are written by people who pretend to be against the meters, and go off on some tangent about how the new meters can somehow determine what devices one is using, spying in peoples bedrooms about sexual practices and preferences, medical problems, pharmaceutical drug addictions, what kind of plants that they grow indoors, how much money that they have, whether they have a plasma, LCD or cathode ray tube TV and on and on. I think some of them are just trying to make the sincere ones against the new meters look like we are all a bunch of kooks !
Some of these people I believe are sincere in these false notions about the meters, but the ones who rant about privacy are the silliest of all.
The new meters only transmit electrical usage, and don’t transmit or know what one is using it for.
The funny thing is, all the posts on internet sites are done on a computer, and some of these people are members of Facebook !
It is these federally/corporately monitored social network sites like Facebook that are the biggest breach of privacy.
If one joins Facebook, they want your full real name (no anonymous screen names allowed), age, sex, occupation, a photo, your mobile phone number, where you went to school, what level of education one has, hobbies and interests, a list of references (friends) and political views. In other words, a tracking program.
Facebook and the FBI are in bed together, they are really into the facial recognition thing. I’m sure that they would love an iris scan for your file too. You might as well call up the FBI and ask to be given an FBI number, just in case you might be thinking about being a criminal or radical speaking out against the corporately controlled government.
I think that the wall street junkies are so desperate to get their hands on the $2.2 trillion in treasury bills that is the Social Security fund, that they will eventually loot it and try and do away with the Social Security system, you know, “privatize” it. Once they pull that off, there will be no more Social Security numbers, but all citizens will be given a Facebook account at birth, and will be closely monitored until death !
And if one posts radical statements, even if one is not on Facebook, all posts are recorded and stay on the internet forever, if one posts under their real name, it’s there forever and could come back and haunt you someday.
Any good hacker kiddie can get into any site and find out your computer address, it’s not just site administrators that can do this.
The bottom line is, if you are paranoid about your privacy, don’t worry about the smart meters, but worry about joining Facebook, posting on the internet, buying things on credit cards or your “smart phone”, and even just using a mobile phone.
There are many ways to ensure privacy and anonymity, the list is long .

We traced that comment to an employee named Steve Jillings at Semtech Company in Caramillo, California. Semtech makes parts for smart meters.

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http://www.bansmartmeters.com/blog/2011/09/busted-industry-employee-leaves-anonymous-comment/