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When Your Power Meter Becomes a Tool of Mass Surveillance (www.eff.org)
submitted 5 days ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] flandish@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

also note those home monitoring devices that attach to your breakers and monitor the signatures of specific devices. nothing stopping a power meter from doing similar.

[โ€“] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

This is called Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) and it can literally identify what appliances you're using and when based on their electrical "fingerprints" - creepy af how much these "smart" meters can actually see into your home.