Topic: Jerry Day on Smart Meters

[Pandora]

Attn:  Libertas!  And everyone else.

Smart Meters

The letter:

Here is a copy of the non-consent letter Jerry mentions in his video.

FROM: Certified U.S. Postal Mail #….
Energy Customer’s Name
Street Address
City State Zip

TO:
Energy Provider
Street Address
City State Zip

Date of letter

NOTICE OF NO CONSENT TO TRESPASS AND SURVEILLANCE, NOTICE OF LIABILITY

Dear (Energy Provider) and all agents, officers, employees, contractors and interested parties,

If you intend to install a “Smart Meter” or any activity monitoring device at the above address, you and all other parties are hereby denied consent for installation and use of all such device on the above property and installation and use of any activity monitoring device is hereby refused and prohibited. Informed consent is legally required for installation of any surveillance device and any device that will collect and transmit private and personal data to undisclosed and unauthorized parties for undisclosed and unauthorized purposes.

Authorization for sharing of personal and private information may only be given by the originator and subject of that information. That authorization is hereby denied and refused with regard to the above property and all its occupants. “Smart Meters” violate the law and cause endangerment to residents by the following factors:

1. They individually identify electrical devices inside the home and record when they are operated causing invasion of privacy.

2. They monitor household activity and occupancy in violation of rights and domestic security.

3. They transmit wireless signals which may be intercepted by unauthorized and unknown parties. Those signals can be used to monitor behavior and occupancy and they can be used by criminals to aid criminal activity against the occupants.

4. Data about occupant’s daily habits and activities are collected, recorded and stored in permanent databases which are accessed by parties not authorized or invited to know and share that private data.

5. Those with access to the smart meter databases can review a permanent history of household activities complete with calendar and time-of-day metrics to gain a highly invasive and detailed view of the lives of the occupants.

6. Those databases may be shared with, or fall into the hands of criminals, blackmailers, law enforcement, private hackers of wireless transmissions, power company employees, and other unidentified parties who may act against the interests of the occupants under metered surveillance.

7. “Smart Meters” are, by definition, surveillance devices which violate Federal and State wiretapping laws by recording and storing databases of private and personal activities and behaviors without the consent or knowledge of those people who are monitored.

8. It is possible for example, with analysis of certain “Smart Meter” data, for unauthorized and distant parties to determine medical conditions, sexual activities, physical locations of persons within the home, vacancy patterns and personal information and habits of the occupants.

9. Your company has not adequately disclosed the particular recording and transmission capabilities of the smart meter, or the extent of the data that will be recorded, stored and shared, or the purposes to which the data will and will not be put.

I forbid, refuse and deny consent of any installation and use of any monitoring, eavesdropping, and surveillance devices on my property, my place of residence and my place of occupancy. That applies to and includes “Smart Meters” and activity monitoring devices of any and all kinds. Any attempt to install any such device directed at me, other inhabitants, guests, my property or residence will constitute trespass, stalking, wiretapping and unlawful surveillance, all prohibited and punishable by law through criminal and civil complaints. All persons, government agencies and private organizations responsible for installing or operating monitoring devices directed at or recording my activities, which I have not specifically authorized in writing, will be fully liable for any violations, intrusions, harm or negative consequences caused or made possible by those devices whether those negative consequences are justified by “law” or not..

This is legal notice. After this delivery the liabilities listed above may not be denied or avoided by parties named and implied in this notice.

Notice to principal is notice to agent and notice to agent is notice to principal. All rights reserved.

Signature

Name of energy user and/or customer

[Libertas]

 

I am so using that!

Thanks a bunch!

 

[Alphabet Soup]

This is good - very good - but it isn't enough. What will you do if the electric company responds with, "Sorry, but this meter is all we have now. Take it or no power for you". Are you prepared to go off grid?

Opposition needs to be applied at the policy level. I know things vary from state to state but in Washington state we have a commission (http://www.utc.wa.gov/Pages/default.aspx) that regulates the activities of the power companies. The hold the power to tell the power companies that "smart meters" aren't allowed, or only allowed in certain circumstances.

There is where I am going to apply pressure. Most of these type aren't really experts in energy management (or anything else) and are just as susceptible to slick brochures and smooth talkers as the next schlub. My guess is that if they've heard anything at all about these meters, they've only heard from one side of the issue. They aren't likely to do anything if they don't know of the building controversy.

[Libertas]

Right now my electricity is not going to smart-meter, only my city water is trying that.  I still have the old meter for water, and if they want a reading they can call me and I can give it to them. 

As far as regulators go, we have PUC's here too, and getting to the meetings when crap like this comes up is important, so that commissioners are hearing real concerns and not a bunch of astro-turfed clowns packing the audience.

I'm all for all manner of rebellion against the Ruling Class PTB's!

 

[Pandora]

Right now my electricity is not going to smart-meter, only my city water is trying that.  I still have the old meter for water, and if they want a reading they can call me and I can give it to them. 

As far as regulators go, we have PUC's here too, and getting to the meetings when crap like this comes up is important, so that commissioners are hearing real concerns and not a bunch of astro-turfed clowns packing the audience.

I'm all for all manner of rebellion against the Ruling Class PTB's!

 

Now, how did I miss that it was your water meter at question, not the other?  Tsk, I need to pay better attention.

[Libertas]

No biggie.  I am sure the electrical will be next.  You know how proglodytes think as well as I!

It's never too early to resists the oppressors!

[AlanS]

No biggie.  I am sure the electrical will be next.  You know how proglodytes think as well as I!

It's never too early to resists the oppressors!

Head 'em off at the pass!