Using a little extra juice to power Christmas lights shouldn’t bring the cops to your door — but police looking for cannabis are using power meters as home-mounted spies. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/when…
When Your Power Meter Becomes a Tool of Mass Surveillance
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.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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An article pops up every now and then in Ohio. I remember reading recently about it.
A search led back more than a decade to this article:
🔗 High electric bills led investigators to Cuyahoga Falls [Cleveland] marijuana growing operation
cleveland.com/akron/2015/05/hi… archive.ph/njHoO
High electric bills led investigators to Cuyahoga Falls marijuana growing operation
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