Smart meters could be ‘spy in the home’
Smart meters could become a ‘spy in the home’ by allowing social workers and health authorities to monitor households, adding to conce rn at Britain’s surveillance society.
By Alastair Jamieson
Published: 10:30AM BST 11 Oct 2009
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The DECC document adds households could even have their power to some appliances turned off remotely to help the national grid if there is too much demand. It says: “In terms of potentially intrusive non-physical behaviour unrelated to data, smart metering potentially offers scope for remote intervention such as dynamic demand management, which is designed to assist management of the network and thus security of supply. This could involve direct supplier or distribution company interface with equipment, such as refrigerators, within a property, overriding the control of the householder.”
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I always think of what can go wrong.
Turn off the refrig to “save the grid” and the food goes bad.
Turn off the heat to “save the grid” and people die.
Turn off power to politically “wrong” people?
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