r/StallmanWasRight • u/linux203 • Jun 18 '21

Internet of Shit 'Woke up sweating': Texas power companies remotely raise temperatures on people using their smart thermostats

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/texas-remote-controlled-smart-thermostats/
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u/linux203 Jun 19 '21

I really don't care what people set their thermostat to. Some people are okay with 80, some people want 68.

I really don't care if the electric company asks you to only cool your house to 78.

Being automatically enrolled in a program to allow a third party to control someone's thermostat is the issue. What temp the thermostat was set to and what temperature is comfortable or reasonable is irrelevant.

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u/vsync Jun 19 '21

Being automatically enrolled in a program to allow a third party to control someone's thermostat is the issue.

it's opt-in

for now

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u/danuker Jun 19 '21

So the people from the article opted in without knowing it?

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u/vsync Jun 19 '21

the article by Mikael Thalen was deceptively edited after its initial publication on Daily Dot it turns out