When Your #PowerMeter Becomes a Tool of Mass #Surveillance
Simply using extra #electricity to power some Xmas lights or big fish tank shouldn’t bring the police to your door. In California, the law explicitly protects the #privacy of power customers, prohibiting public utilities from disclosing precise “smart” meter data in most cases.
Despite this, #Sacramento ’s power company & law enforcement agencies have been running an illegal mass surveillance scheme for years
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/when-your-power-meter-becomes-tool-mass-surveillance
