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- Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program . . .
A California judge ordered the end of a dragnet law enforcement program that surveilled the electrical smart meter data of thousands of Sacramento residents The Sacramento County Superior Court ruled that the surveillance program run by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and police violated a state privacy statute, which bars the disclosure of residents’ electrical usage data
- EFF: Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity SMART METER . . .
SMART METERS: Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento A California judge ordered the end of a dragnet law enforcement program that surveilled the electrical smart meter data of thousands of Sacramento residents
- California Court Ends Smart Meter Dragnet Surveillance Program
According to the EFF, the Sacramento County Superior Court has determined that a surveillance program run by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the police is illegal
- Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in . . .
A California judge has shut down a decade-long surveillance program in which Sacramento's utility provider shared granular smart-meter data on 650,000 residents with police to hunt for cannabis grows The EFF reports: The Sacramento County Superior Court ruled that the surveillance program run by t
- Sacramento Electricity Surveillance Program Ends – Victory!
A Sacramento County Superior Court ruling on November 14, 2024, halted a decade-long program where the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) shared granular smart meter data with law enforcement, violating California privacy laws The program targeted potential cannabis cultivation without requiring evidence of wrongdoing
- More on EFF lawsuit: When Smart Meters turn into spy tools
California’s robust privacy protections are facing a critical test as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and community advocates press forward with a lawsuit to dismantle what they describe as an illegal and biased surveillance operation run by Sacramento’s public electric utility
- Sacramento utility provider under fire for using SMART METERS . . .
The EFF sued Sacramento's public utility (SMUD) for a decade-long unconstitutional surveillance program, using smart meter data to flag over 33,000 households as "suspicious" without warrants or individualized suspicion
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