Sacramento’s power company and law enforcement agencies have been running an illegal mass surveillance scheme for years, using our power meters as home-mounted spies. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is seeking to end Sacramento’s dragnet surveillance of energy customers and have asked for a court order to stop this practice for good.
The Sacramento government (or just the power company? 🤷♂️) is apparently racist against Asians. I’m sure there’s more context here, but that was my biggest takeaway from the article.
Chinese organized crime is huge in illegal grow operations, but obviously that doesn’t make it right to point to people’s race as a determining factor in the decision to investigate “unusual” electricity usage.