{"id":2995,"date":"2011-06-24T18:49:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T01:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2011-06-24T18:53:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T01:53:33","slug":"kamloops-the-dark-side-of-smart-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=2995","title":{"rendered":"Kamloops : The Dark Side of Smart Meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kamloopsnews.ca\/article\/20110606\/KAMLOOPS0303\/110609915\/-1\/kamloops0303\/the-dark-side-of-smart-meters\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kamloopsnews.ca\/article\/20110606\/KAMLOOPS0303\/110609915\/-1\/kamloops0303\/the-dark-side-of-smart-meters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dark side of smart meters<\/p>\n<p><strong>JUNE 6, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Re: Smart Meters Set to Roll Out In Kamloops, May 27, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Tests in the U.S. show smart meters are extremely easy to hack. Won\u2019t that just make it easier to steal electricity?<\/p>\n<p>Information about our personal activities will be collected and broadcast wirelessly. BC Hydro claims they will protect this information, but the video \u201cThe Dark Side of Smart Meters\u201d shows how a $3.24 chip will enable tech-savvy spies to discover whether someone is home and exactly what they are doing. What about our security?<\/p>\n<p>Smart meters were found to violate the legal right of privacy in the Netherlands and people there were given a choice to opt out: What about our right to privacy? Shouldn\u2019t we also have a choice?<\/p>\n<p>And what about other smart meter problems, such as health complaints, easier disconnection of service, plants dying around the meter,\u00a0fires and explosions, interference with and damage to electronics (especially medical equipment), and, of course, the huge increases people\u00a0 are seeing on their electricity bills?<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal government passed legislation to strip the Utilities Commission of the power to oversee the smart meter project:\u00a0What about public input? Who is there to protect the public interest? And who do we go to for honest answers to our questions?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHERRY WOLANSKY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Kamloops<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.kamloopsnews.ca\/article\/20110606\/KAMLOOPS0303\/110609915\/-1\/kamloops0303\/the-dark-side-of-smart-meters The dark side of smart meters JUNE 6, 2011 Re: Smart Meters Set to Roll Out In Kamloops, May 27, 2011. Tests in the U.S. show smart meters are extremely easy to hack. Won\u2019t that just make it easier to steal electricity? Information about our personal activities will be collected and broadcast wirelessly. BC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,3,55,114,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bchydro","category-health_and_safety","category-kamloops","category-privacy","category-smart-meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}