{"id":29255,"date":"2017-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/energy-companies-will-use-smart-meters-to-sell-your-personal-info\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T00:00:00","slug":"energy-companies-will-use-smart-meters-to-sell-your-personal-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/energy-companies-will-use-smart-meters-to-sell-your-personal-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Companies Will Use Smart Meters To Sell Your Personal Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Smart meters will be used to collect and sell personal data to third party marketing firms, says an expert.<\/h3>\n<p>Professor Nigel Phair from the Uni of Canberra told FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner there was nothing in smart meters for consumers &#8212; \u201cbut for the retailers of electricity there\u2019s a lot in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey get the ability to really learn about the energy consumptions of a household. They get to tailor billing around that, they get to push other products, they get to know &#8212; as part of a smart and connected home &#8212; how many people live there, all sorts of things that will allow them to push other products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to be able to sell this information to other marketing firms to push adjacent products and services. That\u2019s the value of that data to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/The-King-Warns-The-Adelaide-Crows-About-Losing-Unsigned-Stars\"><strong>WAYNE CAREY WARNS THE CROWS ABOUT LOSING UNSIGNED STARS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/Jay-Weatherill-Says-It-s-Time-To-Make-A-HUGE-Change\"><strong>PREMIER SAYS IT\u2019S TIME TO MAKE A HUGE CHANGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart meters will be used to collect and sell personal data to third party marketing firms, says an expert. Professor Nigel Phair from the Uni of Canberra told FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner there was nothing in smart meters for consumers &#8212; \u201cbut for the retailers of electricity there\u2019s a lot in it.\u201d \u201cThey get the ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Energy Companies Will Use Smart Meters To Sell Your Personal Info - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/energy-companies-will-use-smart-meters-to-sell-your-personal-info\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Energy Companies Will Use Smart Meters To Sell Your Personal Info\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Smart meters will be used to collect and sell personal data to third party marketing firms, says an expert. 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