Smart meters are controversial gadgets, invoking issues around health, privacy and more.
Like any initiative based on the criminal hoax of manmade global warming – e.g., carbon taxes to be collected from citizens and small businesses to pass on to unaccountable banksters sat offshore and beyond the collapsing Eurozone – this latest “energy efficiency” development in surveillance of private citizens is a crock of s*** trojan horse that will cause much worse damage to society than a few meter readers joining the growing ranks of our unemployed.
We really do need to organise and resist the roll-out of smart meters in the UK, timetabled for completion by 2020. The clip below gives a great overview of the serious issues that smart meter technology invokes. There are also links below to people far smarter than me who have researched all of the issues.
- Smart meter surveillance dangers - http://conversation.which.co.uk/energy-home/is-my-smart-meter-spying-on-me/ and http://www.uswitch.com/blog/2010/06/11/smart-meters-security-and-data-protection/
- Example of one of many “stop smart meters” campaigns currently running - http://refusesmartmeter.com/
- Smart meter health and safety issues - http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/11/01/pge-begins-removing-smart-meters-due-to-health-effects/ and http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=194816
- BBC report on cop-out by mainstream consumer campaign Which? that wants government to oversee smart meters rather than leave it to commercial interests - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16565100
