Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
A group of researchers at the Münster University of Applied Sciences have claimed that it is possible to use the electricity usage data from a smart electricity meter to determine which programs a consumer is watching on a standard TV set. The test results, which have been presented in draft form and are yet to be formally published (presumably with peer review), also suggest that it may be possible to identify films played from a DVD or other source, the researchers claim. The tests were carried out by Prof. Dr. Ing U. Greveler, Dr. B. Justus, D. Löhr of Münster University’s IT Security Laboratory as part of the state-funded DaPriM (data privacy management) project. The researchers conducted the investigation at a private residence in RWE’s service area in North Rhine-Westphalia, with a 3-phase Zähler Q3D smart meter from EasyMeter reading at 2 second intervals and the smart meter data sent to the company’s consumer web portal. They were able to readily identify the consumption profiles of the standard household appliances, including refrigerator, kettle, hot water heater, microwave, washing machine, oven and lighting. In addition, they were able to identify the TV and to match the light and dark scenes in a film to the smart meter data. They then generalize this to suggest that through analysis of programs being broadcast at any time – and provided there is minimum interference from other devices – it may be possible to determine the channel to which the TV was set. In the light of these results the researchers call for a tightening of data protection regulations, including a restriction on the length of time data is stored.
Lesli Brosi, who sent me the above e-mail lives in Texas, where she said her neighbors already
have similar technology because of phone connections to tv cable. She wrote, “In our high-rise condo building, most hard-wired phones are plugged into the tv-cable boxes also, so that when the phone rings, you can see who is calling on the television screen! We are one of the few who opted out of plugging in the land line to the box for interconnectivity. Not only can the television shows be monitored, but phone calls could be monitored through the same box, if they choose to do so.”
The Smart Grid in Canada – Plans for a North American Grid – Including USA and Mexico
Why should we be concerned with what Canada is doing with the Smart Meters and Smart Grid? As you will read in Chapter VIII, the Smart Grid that is being planned is for all of North America. We will be sharing our energy grid with Canada and Mexico and treated as one big union, just as the European Union. Although it has not officially happened yet, the Smart Grid will help to bring about a North American Union, something for which many people high up in government have been planning, scheming and preparing for many years, but all under cover. I reveal this scheme in my recently published book, By Stealth and Deception, USA Transformation and Its Parallel to the European Union. (See bibliography page for more details.)
The following are talks and articles given or written by Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada, entitled,” she reveals many disturbing issues of the
Smart Grid, how it will be used to collect data on all of us, greatly affecting privacy rights. (The following are You Tube video clips with the length of time for each.)
Refuse smart meters, What Happened to Privacy? "Smart Meter or Spy Meter ?...4:16 Privacy by Design and the Smart Grid...3:48 Smart Antivirus 2009 Information...1:18
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