Smart Meters do not spy on your house, and they don't turn off your electricity arbitrarily. I design them for a living, and I can tell you, they don't have the computing brainpower to do all the evil things people attribute to them. They just meter electricity, and transmit the readings by radio signal so meter readers can read more houses in a day. Yes, some smart meters can remotely turn off HVAC. YOU CAN OVERRIDE IT. Geez. What paranoia. You may have been designing them, but I'm working on the new version. It consists of a Standard Smart Meter that is in radio contact with a computer mounted on a piece of headgear that the homeowner wears. Excessive power use, or attempts to remove the headgear, will fire the two shotgun shells pointed at those two temples of said homeowner.