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Electricity companies scraping data to analyse their customers.
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this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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My German utility company comes into my (rented) apartment every year to look at the heating units inside my home in person. My town just combines it with the Schornsteinfeger/fire marshal visit, which is pretty convenient, but I was a little shocked that I was required to let people into my home at first.
That's true and would have been complicated to avoid up to now.
Thankfully technology has caught up here and the visits often aren't necessary any more due to RF meters (but at the price of raising a whole new bunch of questions about privacy in the process...)
Schornsteinfeger, like car TÜV, you won't get around, though.