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Smart meter data: the Government’s at it again (www.openrightsgroup.org)

submitted 5 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Artemis@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Ontario government has had a few initiatives to push smart thermostats and my area just had our water meters upgraded to smart ones. I know nothing about the water meters, but I block the Google telemetry from my Nest Thermostat (unrelated to the gov't program) via my pi-hole at least. By definition, if you sign on to the Enbridge thermostat initiative you are agreeing to send your usage. Not really sure of the impacts of this article on Canada, but pretty chilling nonetheless!

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Google stuff often hard codes 8.8.8.8, so unless you're forwarding all port 53 to your pihole, it's probably still getting out. Do the smart thing like I did and spend thousands of dollars on a proxmox host, virtualize opnsense, and tell Google where to stick it.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do a black hole for any 8.8.8.8 traffic on my Unifi dream machine, so you don't need thousands of dollars in equipment. It can be done on Unifi which has cheaper options.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

But that's boring lol

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Corporations: laughs in DoH/DoT

(or even static IP)