Category Archives: Smart Grid, Smart Meters, and RF Emissions

The Law is Clear: Details of the Home Are Entitled to the Utmost Fourth Amendment Protection

Posted on March 1, 2017 by SkyVision Solutions

A Press Release from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): An Illinois Court Just Didn’t Get It: We Are Entitled to Expect Privacy In Our Smart Meter Data, Which Reveals What’s Going On Inside Our Homes March 1, 2017 | By … Continue reading →

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Advocacy Groups Raise Concerns about Privacy Implications of Smart Meter Data in Newly Filed Brief

Posted on March 1, 2017 by SkyVision Solutions

PRESS RELEASE (February 28, 2017):  Privacy International & the Electronic Frontier Foundation Raise Concerns about Privacy Implications of Smart Meter Data In Newly Filed Brief

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Privacy Advocacy Groups Submit Amicus Brief Opposing Smart Meter Fourth Amendment Violations

Posted on February 28, 2017 by SkyVision Solutions

by K.T. Weaver, SkyVision Solutions  Last week I posted an article describing how the Naperville Smart Meter Awareness group (NSMA) had filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit requesting a reversal of a lower … Continue reading →

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Smart Meter Data Analysis Enables Consumer Profiling with “Alarmingly High Accuracy”

Posted on February 25, 2017 by SkyVision Solutions

by K.T. Weaver, SkyVision Solutions  From a recent peer-reviewed industry article [1], here is what is stated about the issue of privacy and smart meters for the “end user” of electricity: “Conventional meters were only capable of measuring and displaying … Continue reading →

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Naperville Smart Meter Awareness Group Appeals to Higher Court on Fourth Amendment Violations

Posted on February 22, 2017 by SkyVision Solutions

by K.T. Weaver, SkyVision Solutions  The Naperville Smart Meter Awareness group (NSMA) has filed its legal brief [1] with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit after a Federal District Court entered a final judgment against NSMA late … Continue reading →

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We’re Being “Hunted” by Smart Meters and the Internet of Things

Posted on January 13, 2017 by SkyVision Solutions

by K.T. Weaver, SkyVision Solutions Because of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the deployment of devices like utility smart meters we are quickly losing our personal freedom and liberty and further heading toward Orwell’s 1984 [1].  For those aware … Continue reading →

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Smart Meter Deployments Result in a Cyber Attack Surface of “Unprecedented Scale”

Posted on January 7, 2017 by SkyVision Solutions

by K.T. Weaver, SkyVision Solutions  The Internet of Things (IoT) involves an Internet which will evolve from connecting just machines and people towards connecting “smart” objects and things.  The electric utility industry is currently developing an IoT-based smart grid (SG).  This … Continue reading →

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Smart Meters Force People to Reduce Consumption and Pay Higher Prices

Posted on January 5, 2017 by SkyVision Solutions

by K.T. Weaver, SkyVision Solutions I have previously written a number of articles demonstrating how smart meters are not economically justifiable for broad-based deployments and that the vast majority of consumers will suffer a financial “net loss” with smart meters. … Continue reading →

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Naperville Group Appeals Smart Meter Ruling to Higher Court

Posted on December 24, 2016 by SkyVision Solutions

by K.T. Weaver, SkyVision Solutions  In the smart meter-related case of Naperville Smart Meter Awareness (NSMA) v. City of Naperville, a Federal district court entered a final judgment against NSMA and in favor of the City on September 26, 2016. … Continue reading →

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Health Risks Associated with Smart Meter Wireless Emissions

Posted on October 2, 2016 by SkyVision Solutions

by K.T. Weaver, SkyVision Solutions Article Key Points There is a “reasonable basis” for concern regarding health risks associated with smart meter wireless emissions. It is “unreasonable” to involuntarily and chronically expose consumers to the electromagnetic energy emitted by smart … Continue reading →

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