Comments on: Asking the CPUC for Your Analog Meter Back? It’s More Likely You’ll Get the Booby Prize Instead. https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/11/10/asking-the-cpuc-for-your-analog-meter-back-its-more-likely-youll-get-the-booby-prize-instead/ Fighting for health, privacy, and safety Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:07:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5 By: Jim https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/11/10/asking-the-cpuc-for-your-analog-meter-back-its-more-likely-youll-get-the-booby-prize-instead/#comment-18489 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:07:11 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=2760#comment-18489 In reply to Redi Kilowatt.

The “advertising” I use for my information is the actual technical specifications for the meters.

As a so called “professional”, I suggest you read them like I did.

It’s a technical fact that the meters can be COMPLETELY re-programmed from remote.

The privacy issues are real. I have explained it in many posts but you either seem to not be able to read plain english or selectively read into things what you want.

On these highly technical computer and electronics issues, you are not qualified. As an installer of store bought boxes, that’s usually the case.

So please stop spreading your misinformation and confusing this issue.

]]> By: Redi Kilowatt https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/11/10/asking-the-cpuc-for-your-analog-meter-back-its-more-likely-youll-get-the-booby-prize-instead/#comment-18464 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:21:38 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=2760#comment-18464 In reply to Jim.

I think the privacy issues are really a non-issue, and nobody can change your new meters to read more Kilowatt hours, but the false advertising has got you fooled, and many others too.
The meter project is a total fraud, none of the features advertised exist.
I noticed that PG&E stopped running the TV ads a few weeks ago. Perhaps someone called them on their false claims. The truth is out now.
Time for you to come up with a new more truthful letter against the meter project. The one you have is bogus, and hurts our movement by making false claims.

]]> By: Jim https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/11/10/asking-the-cpuc-for-your-analog-meter-back-its-more-likely-youll-get-the-booby-prize-instead/#comment-18279 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:06:59 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=2760#comment-18279 There are a lot of issues with these meters that any PUC should be concerned with, so there really shouldn’t be a problem for them to demand that utility companies return the mechanical meters when asked. Something else is going on here. Follow the money trail. It’s time to audit the PUC and electric company CEOs.

The FTC could get involved in the privacy issues and fine the utility companies: “Facebook Inc.’s expected settlement with the Federal Trade Commission is sending a strong message to Internet companies that regulators are getting serious about protecting the privacy of consumers.”

And Congress has introduced more than a dozen privacy bills so far this year.

The utilities should be worried, very worried.

Everyone needs to keep holding their feet to the fire. Send the sample letters out to both the PUC and the utility, make sure they are on notice for all the issues and can’t just say “we didn’t know”. That’s what happened in the first place.

Write the FTC about the privacy issues you are concerned with.

It’s also unfair trade. The old meters were fair because it’s harder for the utility to come out and adjust them to read more KWh, but now they can modify the settings from remote with the push of a button, for MILLIONS of meters at a time. This would be worth $$ millions of dollars. They could do it without anyone knowing.

Sample text for you to use is at this page, scroll down for more:
https://stopsmartmeters.org/sample-letter-to-utility/

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