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What is the larger picture of a Smart Meter?

Be mindful of the terminology. The word "smart" is to deceive you into thinking that it is advanced and to subdue questioning the meter purpose.

The utility company presents the word "upgrade" deceptively. You may have the latest technology, but what is the hidden agenda?

Aside from the health risk, Smart Meters are a command and control network, a transition to the Smart Grid and the Internet of Things (IoT), which use a variety of technologies to connect the digital and physical worlds.

Within the Smart Grid and the IoT your physical location and movement is precisely tracked, and a unique profile of your lifestyle is constructed. Moreover, selling your personal data is very profitable for the utility company.

As energy usage is surveilled, algorithms build a picture of your life and habits and then assign a unique user profile score. The sophistication of these back-end processes should not be underestimated, especially when coupled within the IoT meta structure.

Little has been said about how a user's profile correlates to services. For example, rate structure and billing. Perhaps during peak demand hours your energy use is too high. You are therefore billed at a higher rate for time of use and your energy profile score is demoted.

Part of the end game is to assign everyone an energy profile emission quota linked to carbon credits to save the environment, and when integrated into a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) you could be denied certain purchases for exceeding allowable carbon credit emissions.

We hope that you appreciate the agenda of the smart meter control grid, much of which remains to be revealed. In our opinion, customer surveillance and privacy in the larger scheme of the Smart Grid and the IoT is a fundamental breach of law and basic human rights.

For more on Smart Meter surveillance and privacy, watch the video on our spy meter page, 'Smart Meter Mass Surveillance'.

In addition, here is a quote from the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, PRIVACY AND THE MODERN GRID, by Sonia K. McNeil.
...smart meters are only one component of the broader transition to the smart grid. This effort, in contrast with past upgrades, is intended to alter permanently the prevailing technological standard for electric meters. The technology sophistication and its saturation are each relevant to privacy.

What can you do?

• Do not remain silent. Immediately send a Notice of Liability and Request for Privacy Information to your utility company, even if your neighborhood is Smart Meter free. The documents are found in the Help section of our website.
• Post links to our Spy Meter website on social media and help educate people.
• Download the PDF file of this post and share.
• Help us with donation to our GoFundMe or Buy Me Coffee campaign and share the links.
  
• Use signage and distribute them to friends.
• Become active in many of the grassroots organizations working towards utility choice and the end of opt-out fees.
• Contact your legislative representatives, including mayors and town and county supervisors. Educate them about the health risk potential, privacy invasion, and customer opt-opt fees associated with Smart Meters.

This recent story was scrubbed from the KOMO news website and their YouTube channel, only to be found on the internet "WayBackMachine" archive.

SEATTLE -- In what's being called a "gesture of good will," the Seattle Police Department has agreed to deactivate a WiFi network in downtown Seattle that some worried could be used to spy on residents.

Last week, the ACLU of Washington raised concerns about a number of white boxes that recently showed up in parts of downtown Seattle.

The boxes are part of a wireless mesh network that was installed by the Seattle Police Department to improve communication. However, there were immediate concerns about the network being used to track people's movements.

"In a democratic society you should be able to move freely without law enforcement tracking your movements unless they have reason to believe you're doing something wrong," ACLU communications director Doug Honig said last week.

In an effort to allay those fears, interim Seattle Police Chief Jim Pugel decided on Tuesday to deactivate the system, according to police spokesman Sean Whitcomb.

The system was installed using money from a Homeland Security grant related to another controversial waterfront surveillance system. Whitcomb said the police department will pay to have the system deactivated, though he doesn't yet know how much that task will cost.

The City council requires equipment that can be used for surveillance to be approved by ordinance before it's installed. Whitcomb said the wireless mesh system will not be reactivated until the City Council takes up the plan and allows for "a vigorous public debate."

There's no timetable for when the system will be fully offline.

Source: https://komonews.com/archive/police-deactivating-controversial-wifi-network-in-seattle