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Electricity companies scraping data to analyse their customers. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 week ago by Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/2northamerican4you@sh.itjust.works

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[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s absolutely legal for a power company to know where their services are delivered, lol. Pretty sure they at the minimum absolutely need to know the connection ID that would uniquely identify your house and apartment. Not so sure that a generic info like rooms and square footage would even be considered personal data.

Also, based on the other thread I think you would have an aneurysm if you knew how much info is publicly available in Sweden.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

you would have an aneurysm if you knew how much info is publicly available in Sweden.

Would have guessed it to be similar to Germany, but Germans are often... special... in that regard.

And l just remembered we have our own private nightmare data gatherer here in Germany, too.

It is called "Schufa" and basically every financial institution, online seller or insurance company transmits them your financial behaviour to be centrally evaluated to generate a credit score.

Still can't comprehend how this is legal to exist...