Category Archives: Privacy

NSA Data Center ‘Melts Down’– Too Much Smart Meter Data?

The NSA data crunching center in the Utah desert is in the headlines again.  The Guardian reports: ‘Ten meltdowns over the past 13 months have caused hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage to machinery and baffled investigators at … Continue reading

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Naperville IL Resident Uses Freedom of Information Request to Discover Extent of Smart Meter Privacy Violations

Most people’s lives are so intertwined with their electricity usage that inferring private, intimate details of our home lives from electrical usage data is a snap for the utilities and 3rd parties with access to this information.  For example, one … Continue reading

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New iPhone 5 NSA

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Some Truth from Sedona, Arizona

from Sedona.biz: (July 14, 2013) – Warren Woodward from the Sedona Smart Meter Awareness group is steaming over a letter to the editor published in another media in which his efforts are labeled “hysteria”. The seeming hysteria is actually passion … Continue reading

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“Smart Grid Advancement Act” Introduced in US Congress; Take Action to Stop it Today

Two members of congress (Jerry McNerney, D- Stockton, CA and Matt Cartwright, D- PA) have introduced a congressional bill (HR 2685) that would apparently require all electricity providers (including rural cooperatives and municipal utilities) to join the ‘smart’ grid and … Continue reading

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