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
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! What: A court-ordered end to a surveillance program using smart meter data Where: Sacramento County, California When: Ruling issued November 14, 2024, ending a program active for over a decade Why it matters: Protects resident privacy and sets a precedent for utility data disclosure
Judge rules police cant use electricity data to hunt pot . . . By Randall Yip, Executive Editor A California judge Thursday ruled in favor of a Vietnamese American man and ordered a municipal utility in Sacramento to stop providing data about electricity usage to police Authorities used that information to search the home of Alfonso Nguyen for an illegal marijuana grow Nguyen successfully argued that his high electricity usage was due to a medical