Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program . . . 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 with narrow exceptions
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! The program targeted potential cannabis cultivation without requiring evidence of wrongdoing 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
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
EFF: Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity SMART METER . . . 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 with narrow exceptions