Comments for Welcome to the Smart Grid-Check Your Privacy at the Door at http://www.jbs.org , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.jbs.org Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:04:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5527-welcome-to-the-smart-grid-check-your-privacy-at-the-door#comment-2727 But, I do not yet see the danger in this program. Your privacy scenarios are several big steps from the smart grid being in widespread use. I would be more concerned about the cost of the system and how much of it will be passed on the the consumer. Also the fact that it will be subsidized is curious and leads one to believe that the program may not be self sustaining unless the power companies did in fact sell our data to marketing companies in the future. I can't see the government intruding that much in our lives when we are paying for it. Now if there was some free socialized electric then I could see all the privacy issues you raise coming to light easily. - bigfoot62 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:38:02 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5527-welcome-to-the-smart-grid-check-your-privacy-at-the-door#comment-2633 It is becoming apparent that there is no stopping the collection and sharing of information. And while government should be limited in this sphere (as in all spheres) by law, we certainly do not want to GROW government by having them pass laws against all kinds of data sharing. The market will have to decide. To say, comsumers will have to choose companies that protect privacy over those that do not. Of course, that demands de-regulating markets. So we see, in a new level, how important it is to restrain government (by electing principled Constitutionalists and Libertarians at all levels) and likewise to get government regulation (which is unConstitutional) out of free markets. There is no other way. And it must be done now. - Pat Henry Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:23:49 +0100 http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5527-welcome-to-the-smart-grid-check-your-privacy-at-the-door#comment-2622 And way back in the early '70s I spoke with friends about how the 110vac coming from your wall outlet would someday be able to control things in your house. My friends mocked me; "Impossible" they said. It looks as if I'm now being vidicated. Those who would rule will stop at NOTHING to gain control and enslave us. And those who think it's o.k. to have their lives looked over because they've done "nothing wrong" allow me to state that in a tyranny (which it would seem that these United States is becoming with ever increasing speed) EVERYONE can be found guilty of SOMETHING. - DDW Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:11:37 +0100