Smart Meters: Enforcement Of Mandatory Water Restrictions Is Only Just The Beginning

TEC ^ | 04/08/2015 | Michael Snyder

[PROCON]

OK boys, the guy in 6B exceeded his allotted shower time by :23 seconds, get 'em!

[subterfuge]

This article is not an exxageration. The evil left will not stop until they monitor and control every aspect of our lives.
Up next, poop meters on your toilet. Hooray for oppression!

[ColdOne]

Hmmpt maybe the Delta Smelt issue was made up for this to happen?

[gaijin]

Later

[jsanders2001]

Wait till they install the toilet roll sheet counters. Sheryl Crow will be the administrator of that program.

[Regulator]

Buncha leftist crap.

California’s cities consume 178 gallons per person per day, on average. That’s 40 percent more than the per capita water consumption in New York City and more than double that of parched Sydney, in Australia

So what? The largest water use in the state is for agriculture. Homes account for < 20%. If we effect a 40% reduction in home use it's a 12% reduction overall. Woopie. We can replace that NOW with desal plants. Like the one coming online in Carlsbad.

the country’s largest producer of grapes, kiwis, olives, avocados, broccoli, tomatoes, spinach, tree nuts and dairy

All of which can and are grown elsewhere. Most are boutique, high cost produce because California production costs are already too high. Most ag in this state is basically now seen as a jobs program for illegals by the Leftists. Gosh, what will the Campesinos do? Hopefully go home and murder each there so we don't have to deal with it.

California's drought is exacerbated by a doubling of the State population in the last 40 years, ENTIRELY from foreign immigration (the white and black populations actually shrank). Note that the writer doesn't mention this - it's Waciss! to mention Immigration.

Control freaks? Smart meters and water cops? Hardly any of it would be proposed if not for Mass Immigration, which has made the lives of Americans 10 times harder then it was in 1970.

So why are we doing it?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

The Sheeple in Mdadistan, WI are VOLUNTARILY signing up for this invasion of privacy. No big surprise, there!

https://www.cityofmadison.com/water/sustainability/every-drop-counts-track-your-water-usage-online

[Political Junkie Too]

This means that the elite in California will be rationed to one ice cube per martini.

-PJ

[jsanders2001]

I wonder if any politicians will have smart meters installed in their homes? I’m going to guess not...

[Talisker]

Enough about Smart Meters, now let’s talk about Smart Watches... they’re like Smart Meters strapped to your body!

What could possibly go wrong?

[jonascord]

The solution is easy, if somewhat distasteful. Round up everyone on the Left side of the Bell Curve, and 'deport' them. We can let Mexico handle the sudden influx of Stupid. We can start with anyone who can't change a tire, and all the PHDs in Womyn's Studies. (That would be the Democrat's Party.) Kali would be functionally deserted.

They could have the choice of going to Cuba, also. I have no doubt that all those socialists will be able to tell Castro what he did wrong, in his creation of a true Utopia of complete equality.

I hope they like rice...

[grobdriver]

Oh good grief.
All these meters can do is record the use of electricity in the home which can be plotted against time.

1. They individually identify electrical devices inside the home and record when they are operated causing invasion of privacy.
- Utter BS. Everything is inference based on use. They can tell when the A/C comes on from a high load, but everything else in a home is so generic - they can't tell when the TV is running or when you turn on your computer.

2. They monitor household activity and occupancy in violation of rights and domestic security.
- Again, they can infer occupancy by the amount of electricity used.

3. They transmit wireless signals which may be intercepted by unauthorized and unknown parties. Those signals can be used to monitor behavior and occupancy and they can be used by criminals to aid criminal activity against the occupants.
- This, at least, is true. A criminal mind could learn that no one is home if they were to capture the same address over several days and establish a pattern of electricity use, and rob the place when their analysis told them it's most likely to be empty.

4. Data about occupant’s daily habits and activities are collected, recorded and stored in permanent databases which are accessed by parties not authorized or invited to know and share that private data.
- Inferred "habits" based on electricity use.

5. Those with access to the smart meter databases can review a permanent history of household activities complete with calendar and time-of-day metrics to gain a highly invasive and detailed view of the lives of the occupants.
- Inferred "habits" based on electricity use.

6. Those databases may be shared with, or fall into the hands of criminals, blackmailers, law enforcement, private hackers of wireless transmissions, power company employees, and other unidentified parties who may act against the interests of the occupants under metered surveillance.
- See 3.

7. “Smart Meters” are, by definition, surveillance devices which violate Federal and State wiretapping laws by recording and storing databases of private and personal activities and behaviors without the consent or knowledge of those people who are monitored.
- Partially true - homeowners aren't given a choice whether or not to have one installed, but as for the rest, gimmeabreak.

8. It is possible for example, with analysis of certain “Smart Meter” data, for unauthorized and distant parties to determine medical conditions, sexual activities, physical locations of persons within the home, vacancy patterns and personal information and habits of the occupants.
- Agggghhhhh!!! sexual activities??? Maybe with a vibrator that pulls current like a hair dryer... (and how would they know you weren't just drying your hair?). Locations in the home?? Just how does a meter recording overall house use differentiate between a light being turned on in the living room as opposed to one being turned on in the bedroom?

I hate the thought of "smart" meters as much as anyone (well, maybe not) but only from the standpoint of a utility company could brown out your home if they thought you had used more than your share of electricity for the day. That control I would fight against but the information given here just makes anyone with knowledge of electricity wanna smack their head.

[Timber Rattler]

Smart meters are now being used by authorities to crack down on “water wasters” in the state of California,

But, but, but...they promised that this would never happen when they forced people to install them!!!

[EEGator]

Negative, they can purchase dihydrogen monoxide credits.

[GeronL]

Hey. government get out of my bedroom and into my bathroom where you belong!

/s

[IronJack]

This article IS an exaggeration, although accurate to a degree where it sticks to the facts. I have spent the last three years working for an electrical utility that has millions of smart meters installed in its service areas, and can say that, at this point for the utility in question, very little is done with the data being gathered. In fact, the very volume of that data prohibits close inspection of individual records, although it is admittedly possible.

I don't think there is anything to fear from smart meter technology. Yet.

[IronJack]

Only a barbarian puts ice cubes in a martini.

[telstar12.5]

wrap the cell phone housing (yes it is a cell phone that tattles once a day its 5 minute interval data recordings)with tin foil, or better yet, some kind of tater chip foil bag the wind “blew in”.

uncover once a month for a day or two, so the account gets squared up.

rinse; repeat

(and deny if “they” come sniffin’ around

[DuncanWaring]

In Wisconsin - a state that has two of the largest bodies of fresh water on the face of the earth lapping up on its shores.