Smart Meter Acting as Wiretap

Smart meters are intended to improve efficiency, reliability, and allow the electric utility to change different

rates for electricity at different times of day. However, the reality shows that the smart meter will do so

much more than just showing how much electricity that they used. Smart meter can see everything

happened in your home, like whether you are at home, whether you are at a vacation or whether you

have a visitor. The smart meter data shows the own daily life system and that will stored in the power

company’s computer forever. Anyone wanna know about your life, hacking in the power company

system or just asking it about the employees in the power company is the way to get the information.

Or maybe the power company would sell the personal data to anyone who wants.The sense of the

invasion of the privacy will definitely make people refuse to used the smart meters instead of the

old meters.

Here are some points of the invasion of privacy of smart meters.

Firstly, all the companies has the relationship with your power company, such as insurance company,

could easily get the data of the householders’ personal life behaviour. Also, selling the privacy information

to others is another way to exposure the privacy.

Secondly, in the Net of smart meters, the smart meter of your house will not only send the data to the

cell tower, but also exchange the data with other thousands of other smart meters around your house.

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