"When it's free, you are the product". And so effectively, the users of the electricity network have become, with the Linky, the product.
Sometimes using rogue methods, blackmailing the billing of physical readings, installation of the meter without consent, power cuts to recalcitrant, Enedis and its subcontractors have succeeded in imposing the Linky on 32 million households.
The opponents were of course treated as "paranoid", "conspirators", "resistant to progress", etc ...
Ten years later, the deployment of this meter which has real interest only for the EDF-Engie-Enedis nebula which will probably, despite its denials, be enriched by the resale of the data collected by the meter, is now - despite the contrary promise - at the expense of users. So how can we believe that the resale of this data is not part of the "business plan", just on the basis of promises which we can see today what they are worth?
In February 2020, the very moderate CNIL also pointed out two shortcomings concerning the methods of obtaining consent for the collection of consumption data from Linky meters and an excessive retention period for this data, and gave notice to EDF and Engie. But we know what the injunctions of the CNIL are worth.
In addition, when we talk about archived digital data, we always have to ask ourselves who is actually processing this data, with what software, and by whom this software was designed. Recent electoral fraud scandals with voting machines in the US have revealed the factual use of backdoors installed in software to take control of data remotely.
The Linky makes it possible to collect "fine data" on the private life of users: time of getting up, going to bed, presence / absence of the home, number of people in the accommodation, etc. All data that may interest many others operators as the electricity supplier .... (including the intelligence services which have just been authorized by the Intelligence Law to market their data wherever they see fit, without a judge's decision).
In 2018, according to Capital magazine, a report from the Court of Auditors had already warned that the financing of the Linky meter device would be the responsibility of users:
"Of course, the installation of this meter, with a unit cost estimated at around 130 euros, is not billed to households. But it is the user who will ultimately have to finance the device. … Simply, this will not happen immediately. The authorities have, in fact, decided on a “deferred tariff.” Clearly, the costs associated with the deployment of Linky will not be reflected in the bill until 2021. , ... "(..)
"In the end, according to the magistrates' calculations, the operation would represent" a margin of 2.8% "for Enedis," corresponding to an additional cost for users of 506 million euros (...) over the period 2014-2031 ”."
"And again, all this is only valid if the initial assumptions, in particular in terms of deployment cost and savings achieved, are respected. This is not yet won." The full costs of the systems of This information has not been taken into account. These could lead to an increase in investments by around 0.3 billion euros. Finally, the prospect of achieving all the expected gains is not certain ”, warns the Court of accounts. "If the financial balance of the project were to be compromised, there would indeed be a risk of slippage in the bill for consumers", (..) "
Linky meter: why it will cost you dearly
Feb. 7, 2018
In a report published on Wednesday, the Court of Auditors pinpoints the arrangement intended to finance the deployment of Linky electricity meters, which is particularly generous for the distributor Enedis, to the detriment of consumers.
In May 2021, it is confirmed:
Bad news for owners of a Linky meter
May 31, 2021
From 2022, households equipped with the smart meter will have to start reimbursing it.
Households equipped with a Linky will have to go to the cash register. In 2011, Eric Besson, then Minister of Industry and Energy, assured that the new smart meter would "not cost individuals a cent". Ten years later, while more than 90% of households (32 million) are now equipped, the reality seems quite different, as Le Parisien recalls on Monday, May 31.
Amount of the bill: 5.7 billion euros, according to the Court of Auditors, or 130 euros per device. An amount that individuals will have to start repaying from 2022, due to the "deferred tariff" mechanism put in place by Enedis, as Capital had already revealed a few years ago. Several hundred million euros should thus be withdrawn each year, which will represent a total of two billion euros in 2030.
However, Enedis had announced to take charge of 5.39 billion euros: 10% from its own funds and the rest thanks to a loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) at an advantageous rate of 0.77 %. But due to the "deferred tariff" mechanism, which allowed Enedis to postpone the reimbursement in time, and which will therefore come into force from next year, it is indeed the consumer who will have to reimburse the cost of the service. Linky counter. All without benefiting from the very advantageous EIB rate. In its report, the Court of Auditors estimated the interest rate applied to repayment at 4.6%.
As for the remaining 3.7 billion euros (5.7 billion minus the 2 billion which will begin to be repaid from next year), Enedis ensures that they will be "compensated by the savings generated thanks to the meter. With readings now carried out remotely, for example. " If the company also promises individuals better control of their consumption, consumer associations remain skeptical.
In summary :
- the Linky was imposed without user consultation
- accidents and damage related to the Linky have not been reimbursed
- the electromagnetic pollution caused is not taken into account
- the data collected on privacy are likely to be sold to the highest bidder (or captured)
- hundreds of survey agents will lose their jobs
- and it is the user who will pay for this "progress" from which he does not derive any benefit
When we observe today, through the imposition of the health pass, the considerable hold of the Big Data giants on our lives, everything that passes itself off as "a simple operation to optimize management methods or costs "via digitization should alert us.
It is all about the transfer of wealth and control, at our expense.
This transfer and this control can only take place with our consent: simply saying NO defeats them. We all have the power to say NO.
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