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

[Georgina Wilcox]

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
>> >>
>> http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/roko_s_basilisk_the_most_terrifying_thought_experiment_of_all_time.html
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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
>>
>> http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/roko_s_basilisk_the_most_terrifying_thought_experiment_of_all_time.html
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