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Originally Posted by idlewild
For $70 for the first year and $20 thereafter, people are actually opting into allowing a provider to control their personal comfort? And Ecobee (or Google/Nest et al) is basically providing your data to a third party in real time?
Yikes. I thought this was a "free state."
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You are free to sign up for the program, free to choose not to, and free to cancel. What’s the problem?
The adjustments they make are clearly described in the program and limited in frequency and duration. What’s the problem?
At the beginning of this thread you weren’t aware of the program at all but now you know details about how it is being implemented? I’m not interested in doing the research at this point but I would be very surprised if the protocol did not go to great lengths to protect privacy. For example, the communications might only involve a signal sent to an enrolled thermostat to activate a pre-programmed economy feature with no data at all sent from the home to the utility.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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