DIYbanter - View Single Post - Energy supplier wants to fit Smart Meters

Dennis@home

On 23/08/2016 21:15, wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:18:27 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
tabbypurr wrote
Harry Bloomfield wrote
The Natural Philosopher wrote

You no longer need to protect private data on your network,
it is uploaded every night. And is no longer private.

But does it really matter?

You can work out when people are away on holiday by analysing such data.

You can do that by analysing their mobile phone records too. No one bothers.

It's only a matter of time before some criminal
organisation does this to pick houses to burgle.

How odd that it hasnt happened with the mobile phone records.

no, those deal with one person, not one house

Or the records of the fuel they buy for the car either.

too spaced out in time, data too disparate etc.

Or the airline tickets they buy either.

is that publicly available? Again travel does not imply an empty house.

Or the records of what grocerys they buy either.

useless for the purpose, and there is no publicly available record

There are no publicly available records for smart meter readings.