Energy Firm CAUGHT Breaking Down Door to INSTALL Smart Meter!

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41. Doesn't seem much of a short term problem, except in isolated cases.

From the Nat Geo article cited in the thread

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/12/121212-smart-meter-privacy/

Some states, including California and Maine, which has the highest penetration rate in the country for advanced meters, have allowed residents to opt out of smart-meter installation. So far, few customers have done so: In California, according to Chris Villarreal of the CPUC, the opt-out rate was less than half of one percent.


Also there is something suspiciously odd about the video. You don't need inside access to meters, they are on the outside of the house. The person doesn't appear similar to the utility workers I have seen and finally there isn't a company in the world that would authorize their employees to break into a house with only a single employee (or under any other circumstances) that didn't have some type of law enforcement authorization (i.e. a gas company employee breaking into an unoccupied house to check on a leak).

If this was really happening then you would have heard of hundreds of cases and hundreds of lawsuits.