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Privacy Commissioner puts heat on utilities over smart meters

Smart meters can capture richer and richer data about what is happening in a household, Edwards warns.

Mon, 29 May 2017

Privacy Commissioner John Edwards is putting the heat on power companies over their privacy policies for smart meters – or lack of.

Why should anyone care? Beyond spam marketing, Mr Edwards says data collected by smart meters could be used for nefarious means if not properly secured. For

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