EFF: New Smart Meters for Energy Use Put Privacy at Risk

Source: digg.com: Stories / Popular
Posted: 2010-03-11 14:30:08

The ebb and flow of gas and electricity into your home contains surprisingly detailed information about your daily life. Energy usage data, measured moment by moment, allows the reconstruction of a household's activities: when people wake up, when they come home, when they go on vacation, and maybe even when they take a hot bath...