ยป Natural Surveillance
So here‘s another reason that the law allowing municipalities to request stats on power use from BC Hydro is bad: the information will be sent out to anyone that asks for it.
If I owned a company that sold “things like heated pools, hot tubs and baseboard heating” I would add people on this list to my directory of possible clients as soon as possible. Or if I wanted to steal “things like heated pools, hot tubs and baseboard heating” — you know, anything that takes a lot of power — this would be like a kind of reverse Santa’s list.
Not to mention the offhand reference by the cop to “natural surveillance”. What the hell is going on?! I thought we weren’t supposed to spy on one another at all, and certainly not as an invisible extention of the police.
The data our lives generate should belong to us.
I don’t know how the information is miss managed by the municipalities, but I know that I can’t get this information from hydro by just calling them. If I want to get the hydro usage for buildings that I am working on, i have to get the owner to call and get the information from hydro for me. Now once the municipalities have it does it come under the freedom on information act and anyone can get there hands on it?
Zirul
11 Jan 07 at 6:49 pm
I suppose that might be it. I forgot we had a domain expert aboard now
Jack
12 Jan 07 at 8:43 am