[@OKFNau] does your home have a smart meter? Are you on Github? Read on...

Thu Dec 4 23:51:38 UTC 2014

Hi Omid,

I'm sure that Lachlan wanted access to data about his own energy usage.
This would be useful in order to better inform his usage and efforts to
save energy.

Georgina
On 5 Dec 2014 10:24, "Omid Ameri" <oameri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> The same kind of data is available in usa. Why you need Aussie one?
> Any how this data is extremely confidential and no one has this right to
> give it to anybody. Because this is about lifestyle and householders
> privacy.
> Cheers
> Omid
>
> Sent by my mobile.
> On 03/12/2014 9:22 PM, "Lachlan Musicman" <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, sorry. I'm just very cynical re big business and my data. Am
>> about to upload - Charlie, where do you want them? In the examples
>> folder? Also, am *I* incrementing the XX number?
>>
>>
>> On 1 December 2014 at 10:04, Georgina Wilcox <georginawilcox at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm not in any way an expert, but there is some information about the
>> > Privacy Act (1988) here:
>> >
>> http://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-resources/privacy-fact-sheets/other/information-sheet-private-sector-4-2001-access-and-correction
>> ,
>> > in particular an individual's right to request a copy of information
>> > held about them. There has also been more recent privacy reform just
>> > this year.
>> >
>> > However -- in negotiating something like this, perhaps it is best to
>> > start with the friendliest possible tone, and only start quoting dates
>> > once you hit a blank wall. It might take longer, but then again it
>> > might not, if it doesn't occur to anyone that this might be something
>> > they want to deny you. I mean, logically, why would they? that would
>> > be crazy...
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Charlie,
>> >>
>> >> What is the easiest way to get our provider to give us a copy of that
>> data?
>> >>
>> >> I ask because, in my cynicism, I presume they will evade and try to
>> >> not provide. Is there language I can use? Like:
>> >>
>> >> "according to the Blah Act of Victorian Parliament in 2008, you are
>> >> required to give me this data on request..."
>> >>
>> >> or some such?
>> >>
>> >> cheers
>> >> L.
>> >>
>> >> On 25 November 2014 at 15:17, charlie <charlie.h.ward at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> Hi all
>> >>>
>> >>> I’ve started a very modest little project on Github relating to
>> Australian
>> >>> smart meter data.  See
>> >>> https://github.com/charliedotau/Smart-Meter-File-Format-Examples-Aus
>> >>>
>> >>> I need your help.  If you have a smart meter, live in Australia and
>> you’re
>> >>> on GitHub, I’d love your help in collating as many examples as
>> possible of
>> >>> the different file formats used by Retailers and Distributors to
>> supply
>> >>> their customers with their electricity usage data.
>> >>>
>> >>> More details in the link above.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks kindly
>> >>>
>> >>> Charlie
>> >>> http://what.agreenidea.org
>> >>>
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>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> and not clever enough to do the obvious thing and KEEP THEIR IDIOT
>> >> MOUTHS SHUT about it, because it is much more important to sound
>> >> intelligent when talking to your friends.
>> >> This post was STUPID.
>> >>
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>> >> The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
>> >>
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>> --
>> You have to be really clever to come up with a genuinely dangerous
>> thought. I am disheartened that people can be clever enough to do that
>> and not clever enough to do the obvious thing and KEEP THEIR IDIOT
>> MOUTHS SHUT about it, because it is much more important to sound
>> intelligent when talking to your friends.
>> This post was STUPID.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
>>
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