Don’t think that ‘smart’ appliances will be used against you?
Consider what is happening in California.
While you may not yet have purchased new home gadgets that employ this technology, the water and power companies are forcing people to install meters with these ‘smart’ capabilities.
And California water authorities are now using smart meter data as evidence to impose fines on users.
Smart electric meters and smart water meters communicate real-time usage data via radio frequency. That is how consumption of utilities in your home is being big brother tracked and traced at all times on the ‘smart grid’.
“It collects the data every five minutes, then after midnight, the cellphone that’s built in here comes on, makes one call, and calls it in to the database that we and the customer, through a password security system, have online access to their consumption. Using this data, Wattier knew the precise moment to send his employees to videotape the infractions to use as evidence.”