So are there ways of shielding meters and cars from passing along information?
Just like there are people who change power settings on trucks with chips are there people who are designing items for protection of our privacy in consumer goods?
Or do we just cover everything in tinfoil?
Take charge of how automotive power is used,select functions you want off to conserve your battery.
If you block the information from your electric meter, you may suffer consequences. The power company may just shut you off. This is because they have no other way to read the meter other than to send out a technician and they are no longer staffed to send out a technician to read a meter. You’ll probably find there is a clause in your agreement that if you mess with the meter, you lose the meter. As for things like the “internet of things” there is no reason to have that at all. I played hell trying to get my HP printer, which I only bought to use as a scanner, not to connect. Eventually, I couldn’t use it anymore, so it went into the can. There is no reason for your refrigerator to talk to the internet. As for the car, if they pass legislation to track your mileage you can bet that if you disconnect the device that the first time you pass a reader and it doesn’t get a read, you will be targeted and pulled over because it will be tax evasion.
Incidentally, I worked for Regency Communications when they designed the first remote read power meter. I can attest that the only thing on the engineer’s mind was cutting down the manpower required by the power company to operate. Reading the meter can be dangerous as you have to get into fenced yards with dogs. Discussing this with my power company the woman told me that the amount of cheating by the self-read meters went to zero. Before it was commonplace. That meant honest people were paying the bills of dishonest people.
Interesting topic.
On cars, most all of the premium vehicles now made...have a cellphone ‘relationship’ with the car and data passes along. No cellphone? No data passing along. I expect that various ‘geeks’ will offer their services to cut the data transfer possibility, and the government will make this illegal in some way.
As for the smart-meter? Once you think about the increasing methods/ways that limited electricity will be produced, they are simply herding you to times of the day when you can run household items (freezers, washers, AC units). Adding to your burden is the E-car which has to be recharged.
Eventually, your smart-meter controllers will ask you about the type of washer/dryer, the model of your freezer unit, your E-car status, and out will come some ‘instruction’ to say that for 16 hours a day...you get limited ‘juice’ (enough to run a TV, laptop and refrigerator unit). You might have AC covered, but it’ll be at some 85-degree setting for the daytime. The smart-meter will then say you can only wash dishes or clothing after 9 PM, or charge-up your E-car.
When you start seeing washers/dryer/refrigerators with Wi-Fi connectivity....that’s the entry angle to this control. My son recently bought a washer unit which has a Wi-Fi control (it basically is prepared to be turned on, and he just sends a signal from his office to start, at a particular time).
The more ‘they’ know about you...the more control they can exert.
Totally depends on the device(s)...”Smart Meters” (electricity) just report your usage (via cellular)...mess with that and the power co. disconnects you. You voluntarily sign up for the “turn off your A/C thermostat” interface device for lower “time of day” rates...don’t sign up for that. Most vehicle spying can be eliminated by not paying for the “telematics”/cellular features or by not signing up for reduced insurance rates with the OBD-II “spy device”. “Drive Safe & Save”, etc.. Auto insurance companies have been known to read your onboard OBD “black box” after an accident claim tho..
Two layers of extra-strength tinfoil, just to be sure.
Cell phone data can be easily picked up if your car is equipped w/bluetooth, where you can have your cell phone audio come out over the stereo speakers. In my car, the box providing the bluetooth is easily unplugged and is under the passenger seat.
For starters have an off grid house and drive an old car. I was in a dealership recently looking at new vehicles....gave the sales rep the list of what I wanted my next vehicle to NOT be able to do. Told them personal privacy was the top item of importance on my list and if they couldn’t meet that no deal. I’m still waiting...but I am in no rush.
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I'm doomed, I tell ya. Doomed.
The government can control me now.
Everything in the new car runs off Google. The infotainment system is a POS because it’s Google. I don’t log into any account so we lose a lot of so called capabilities... all data transfers and logging are turned off although it’s probably on anyway. My phone stays home 99% of the time so that’s irrelevant. Appliances are blocked from the Internet. We lose power I have a whole house generator..with WiFi that I blocked and don’t use either.
It is what it is and I block what I can.
Avoid smart anything as much as possible.
There are “dumb” gadgets out there is you look.
And when they found out that people were just leaving it connected on the seat (How dare you!!), they mandated that leaving it connected would drain your battery?
Fed gov loves their power and we will have to pry it back from their cold, dead hands.
Don’t forget watching over our bank accounts...and everything we post on the web.
I haven’t bought a new car in a while, but when I do, I’ll likely ‘disconnect’ a few things to make life more challenging for ‘them’ than it otherwise would be. Did the same for my sister who lives in a ‘smart’ apartment.
If (or WHEN) they start requiring everything and everyone to be monitored, they will also make it a crime to block the monitoring. Makes me wonder about folks. This has been a staple of science fiction since I was knee high to a short sheep. I’m approaching 70 now.
When I look at our daily use of technology it appears to me we are already slaves to computers.
The way I understand it when this happens, and I believe it will, there will be zero means of avoiding this. You might can do this now...but in the end you will be unable to avoid or hide from this.
Well tin foil works for your cell phone. I don’t know about your electric meter. 😉
You just move on. Cause, honestly, with 331 million of us, and growing, they simply are not going to be doing that. It’s just too much effort. All these people telling you this are just trying to sell you fear. Don’t buy it. Move on with your life.