Activist Post
Smart Meters are showing up across the U.S. despite pockets of fierce resistance. These meters are part of the SmartGrid system which relays real-time, wireless data in order to monitor and distribute energy use down to the tiniest detail. The professed purpose of this grid system -- to reduce carbon emissions -- is ringing more hollow than ever, as both health and privacy concerns are taking center stage for an increasing number of people who are aware of the dangers on both levels.
Smart Meters use radio frequency microwaves, which have produced a documented list of negative health effects, as shown in the video below.
Now, a German study highlights the precision with which these devices can also monitor personal habits such as TV viewing. This lends credence to those who have asserted from the beginning that Smart Meters are nothing more than the latest attempt to ratchet up the all-seeing eye of the surveillance and data collection network.
These devices are more appropriately viewed as a two-way data collection web with the user as the centerpoint. It now has been revealed that the information being transmitted outward goes beyond merely which appliances of yours are contributing to supposed Global Warming:
"The group's experiments used data from a standard EasyMeter smart meter installed in a normal home. The meter sends electricity usage data to a server every two seconds. The customer profile on the supplier's web server shows the household's total consumption, from which it is possible to extract and analyse TV viewing data...
Second by second data transfer makes it possible to carry out much finer analysis"This analysis is so fine, potentially, that it can target not only the source of the data (TV, DVD, etc.), but through an analysis of the light and dark spectrum even specific programming can be identified.