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How Smart Meters Invade Your Privacy: A Comprehensive Report

Last week, SkyVision Solutions released an updated report entitled, “A Perspective on How Smart Meters Invade Individual Privacy.” The original report was issued in March of this year and has now been updated with new information regarding investor owned utilities (IOUs) as well as addressing a White House […]

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Interview with Dr Samuel Milham on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) and Dirty Electricity

This is an excerpt from an interview with epidemiologist Dr Samuel Milham, the full version of which is available free of charge for the next 48 hours as part of the EMFSummit. Dr. Milham is the author of “Dirty Electricity”, a book which lays out the link […]

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‘Smart’ Meter Fires Provoke Mass Removal of 175,000 Units in Canada and US

In Saskatchewan, Canada, the government has ordered 105,000 smart meters be replaced with non-transmitting older meters because of several fires started by smart meters.  “The concerns are significant enough that we believe that any time that families are at risk here in Saskatchewan, actions have to be […]

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EDF Offering Customers Ability to Remove ‘Smart’ Meters

*EDIT – the link below no longer works, so it unfortunately looks like EDF has now changed its mind on this policy.* We have already shared this good news on our Facebook page but, in case you missed it, energy giant EDF is now telling customers that […]

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WARNING: ‘Smart’ Meter Fire Risks – Refuse Smart Meters!

Having razed numerous homes to the ground in the United States and Canada, fire-breathing ‘Smart’ Meters are now coming to the UK.  And they could provide you with a highly ‘innovative’ (but very expensive) way of heating your home. The EMF Safety Network this year reported fires, […]

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Smart tech leaves us more open to hackers (Business World)

Last November, Felix Lindner came very close to shutting down the power supply of Ettlingen, a town of almost 40,000 people in the south of Germany. “We could have switched off everything: power, water, gas,” Lindner, head of Berlin-based Recurity Labs, an IT security company, said. Fortunately […]

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On the Internet of Things, your body is the next thing to be networked

At a recent demonstration in Toronto, a biomedical researcher slipped on a wristband and waved it at a laptop, watching as the computer recognized him and unlocked itself. Then he handed the same wristband to his research partner, who put it on and tried the same thing—but […]

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£200 smart meters every household must pay for but may not work | Mail Online

[No mention of health or privacy impacts but a very good article from today’s Mail Online.  Bear in mind that, whilst Sir Bob is keeping quiet about how much he has been paid to trumpet reckless, environmentally-devastating and decidedly non-green ‘Smart’ Meters, his fee will have come from the […]

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Is a 300% increase in Crohn’s disease the result of our escalating exposure to wireless technologies?

Stop Smart Meters! (UK) – London, UK – 26 June 2014 Guest Post:  by Dr Andrew Goldsworthy You may have seen recent reports of a 300% increase in Crohn’s disease, such as this article in the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/crohns-disease-hospital-admissions-surge-300-because-of-junk-food-and-antibiotics-9548524.html Possible explanations for the rising trend include the use […]

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Mobile Phone Radiation Leads to Oxidation in Cells – Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology & Radiobiology (Kiev)

The Ukrainian group of scientists around Igor Yakymenko at the Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology in Kiev consider it to be proven that mobile phone radiation leads to harmful oxidation processes in cells through the overproduction of free radicals. In the editorial ” Low intensity […]

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New meters might not be a smart move for consumers | The Sunday Times

CONSUMERS are being warned that smart meters may not save them money and could increase their energy bills. As part of a government-backed initiative, the big energy companies will spend £11bn installing 50m meters — which provide real-time rather than estimated information on how much energy is […]

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Smart meters are poor value, find 10 EU countries

[SSM note:  In 2007, the consultancy firm Mott MacDonald performed an appraisal of the costs and benefits of Smart Metering in the UK for BERR – and concluded that it will deliver a £4bn loss.  This piece of data has been ignored by those pushing for this […]

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Most Britons don’t trust energy suppliers – so will they be duped by Smart Meter spin doctors?

If you know anyone who is currently studying the art of propaganda – or what is now referred to as “Public Relations” – send them this article.  It offers a terrific case study reference. At first glance, the piece (and others very much like it) seems to […]

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BabySafe Project – Know Your Exposure, Protect Your Baby

The BabySafe Project is a new, public awareness initiative designed to inform women about the risks of wireless radiation in pregnancy and offers 10 ways to reduce wireless exposure – including sleeping as far away as possible from wireless Smart Meters (better still: get them removed). The […]

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Internationally-acclaimed biochemist calls for action against Smart Meters, WiFi in schools & baby monitors

Prof. Martin Pall is the Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences at Washington State University.  He has been studying environmental medicine and chronic illnesses for nearly 15 years and has received eight international honours for his work. In this short presentation, Prof. Pall lays to […]

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“Not-so-smart meters” – What Doctors Don’t Tell You magazine exposes Smart Meter threats

Our thanks go to What Doctors Don’t Tell You magazine and columnist Guy Hudson for their excellent article this month on the dangers of Smart Meters. You can pick up a copy of the magazine – published monthly – in WH Smiths, or subscribe at www.wddty.com. To […]

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What is the Smart Grid?

A short, informative video from Stop Smart Meters Tasmania. What is the smart grid? from Alex Donnelly on Vimeo.

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Look Up – by Gary Turk

‘Look Up’ is a lesson taught to us through a love story, in a world where we continue to find ways to make it easier for us to connect with one another, but always results in us spending more time alone. Written, Performed & Directed by Gary […]

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Official: DEFRA confirms ‘Smart’ Water Meters are NOT compulsory

The Parliamentary Under Secretary for Water, Forestry, Rural Affairs and Resource Management, Dan Rogerson, has confirmed in a letter to Nicholas Soames MP that “no water company is ever required [by the Government] to introduce compulsory metering, even in areas of severe water stress” and that any […]

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British Gas staff ‘paid bonuses if they inflate customers’ bills by 60%’

[SSM UK – After scandalous allegations emerged this weekend that British Gas has been incentivising staff to rip-off customers, we ask:  Can they interest you in a ‘free’ Smart Meter?] British Gas staff ‘paid bonuses tripling their £25,000 salaries if they inflate customers’ bills by 60% by targeting […]

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