Surveillance Capitalism Includes Utility “Smart” Meters. Utility Companies Collect Customer Usage Data 24/7. Are Yours Selling It to 3rd Parties?

By B.N. Frank

Recently, Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff published a new book called The Age of Surveillance Capitalism which reveals how businesses not only offer services to customers – they collect personal data on them in order to sell it to 3rd parties.  Much of this is done without customer knowledge or consent.

If no one comes to read your electric, gas, and/or water meters, it’s likely that you have what are commonly known as “Smart” Meters (though they aren’t always referred to that way by utility companies).

Tens of millions of “Smart” Meters have already been installed throughout the U.S. and around the world.  They are associated with so many issues (including fires, explosionsadverse health effects, cybersecurity risks, malfunctioning appliances, inflated bills) and complaints (including privacy violations, unwanted surveillance, frequent replacement) that in 2013, a documentary was produced, Take Back Your Power.  It was updated in 2017 and is free to watch below.

Click on the link below to see the full post by ActivistPost, a very trustworthy source worthy of your support. I send them $10 a month because they’re talking about the things that concern me in this modern world. Go check out the rest of this article and see the video clips they inserted…

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/02/surveillance-capitalism-includes-utility-smart-meters-utility-companies-collect-customer-usage-data-24-7-are-yours-selling-it-to-3rd-parties.html?fbclid=IwAR1jbJm6bNA2GygAzN0QmGUQgvJ8TYJEoc8nQxeNzsMcDrfbb_4aDGhiVto

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