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When Your Power Meter Becomes a Tool of Mass Surveillance (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 week ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This scheme has targeted Asian customers. SMUD analysts deemed one home suspicious because it was “4k [kWh], Asian,” and another suspicious because “multiple Asians have reported there.” Sacramento police sent accusatory letters in English and Chinese, but no other language, to residents who used above-average amounts of electricity.

Surveillance and racism from the combined forces of the police and the state while residents foot the bill for all of it.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Surveillance and racism

Honestly, that's a better motto for what cops do than protect and serve.