You don't get a choice on the meter in most cases. The smart devices broadcast to your smart meter and it sends the report to the utility company which sells the information to anyone with the dollars. Smart TV's can watch and listen to you and send these video/audio files over the internet.
Time to go Amish, guys.
Our smart electricity meter logs power usage in real time. The power company then can charges more per Kh during peak usage times. That's why my wife runs the dishwasher at night. I have heard they can also turn off your power remotely if you don't pay your bill, but I'm not sure about that.
Everything is getting smarter except the people, they are getting dumber.
According to the "normal" part of the family I'm half way there.Time to go Amish, guys.
Call me paranoid, I have long thought that even our landlines monitored us. Now it is more; televisions, meters, phones, and Alexa! People pay money for the upgraded devices. The great cost increase on some things over a decade indicated that something was being added to the device and services that we pay for.
When the grid goes down, will any of that work? Will we be able to be monitored? What about those who have alternative power and can still use their smart refrigerators and others?
Well I'm suspicious of all of it too. They make the movie 1984 look like like a comedy.
Those two books were on my freshman college reading list in addition to Brave New World.
We read them in high school.I didn't know they would put those in academia. Neat.
We put on "1984" in high school. That had a lasting effect on my politics.
We read them in high school.
We read Shakespeare and other classics in h.s. such as The Odyssey. I'll have to think a while to remember others.My goodness I must of lived in a bubble till I got online.
Smart electric meters are owned by the electric company. It's theirs to do as they please. And now since they have a smart meter, they have no reason to drive onto my property every month to read it!?!?!?
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