Jennifer Urban Cites Privacy Risks of Smart Grids

American Public Media, Future Tense, March 16, 2010 Host Jon Gordon
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Smart meters draw information about energy usage within a home thousands of times a month as opposed to one time.… You can tell when people get up, you can tell when they go to bed. You can tell when they’re cooking; you can tell when they’re using certain medical devices. You can tell when they’re home or when they’re away.… The risk is really in how the information might be used and how we might lose control of it.