Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
communicate with similarly equipped appliances through Bluetooth-style wireless technology.”
Barbara Simpson, San Francisco - KSFO Talk Show Host on Saturday and Sunday evenings told on the radio of her experience vacationing in England.
The hotels
obviously already had the Smart Meters. You could not get a really warm shower. The water temperature was controlled and would not go to any higher temperature.
Possible Prison Sentence for Refusing a Smart Meter in Holland
(The following e-mail letter was received by Deborah Tavares from Hendrick Smit from Utrecht, Holland. It was originally sent to Josh Hart of the EMF Network):
PROPOSAL - REFUSING A SMART METER - AN ECONOMIC CRIME ASKING FOR 6 MONTH’S PRISON SENTENCE:
My name is Hendrick Smit and I'm a member of Vrijbit, a Dutch privacy organization. With success we've managed to kill a bill at our senate, after it passed our 'First Chamber' of parliament (like your congress, I guess). It now has to be revised.
What happened before: This was early 2009 when the legislation was being worked through. Over here the Minister of Economics ensured that the small print of the law was not clear. Her party (Christian Democrats) are masters at manipulating and word-games. In the mean time the left was enthusiastic about all the energy savings that lay ahead. Nobody bothered to ask any specifics. A lot of monkeys came out of the hat in the senate. It turned out that:
1. The savings were not around 14%, but actually closer to 2%. The meter itself would also use some 0,5% of the total bill. I'm not sure about that. Note: It now seems that the savings part is more complicated and not true. 2. Radiation. Legislators are not concerned about this. Unfortunately, the Electrosmog- organization I contacted was not concerned about the GPRS technology either. 3. Privacy issues. The first concept would log the use of gas and electricity every 15 minutes. From a privacy standpoint that is awful. It allows government to see what goes on behind your closed door. It also allows energy companies to target you with marketing, based on your user profile. And perhaps worst: Criminals know your every move, your habits. This allows for simple burglary all the way to the nightmare of identity-theft. 4. Security issues. Again, legislators do not understand much about this. The University of Amsterdam has proven that the Smart Meters we have can be hacked. 100% security does not exist. Beside the gathering of privacy data, hackers can also mess with the overall system. They may even access the connected PC. 5. Remote control. These things are (consciously?) dubbed 'meters'. They are more than that. They may better be called controllers in a master-slave configuration. Calling it that would take out the fun, would it not? They can cut off your energy at the push of a button. They can restrict energy. Before, it would require a worker coming over and physical cutting off the gas flow or electricity. It's very sterile with the Smart Meters. These things give the energy company control. 6. One way flow of electricity: Those who own solar cells could feed the grid with those. With the Smart Meters we got installed the owner would have to buy a second one at his/her own expenses. 7. Imprisonment. Yep. This was the thing that upset the senate most. It turned out that anyone refusing a meter would be committing an economic crime. That could put you in
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