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A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 days ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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According to a motion the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed in Sacramento Superior Court last week, Nguyen and Decker are only two of more than 33,000 Sacramento-area people who have been flagged to the sheriff’s department by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, the electricity provider for the region. SMUD called the customers out for using what it and department investigators said were suspiciously high amounts of electricity indicative of illegal cannabis farming.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My gaming desktop and basement server uses enough power to be flagged as a grow. Fuck these guys gonna hassle me for being a geek.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Cops:

We suspect you have a grow operation.

Nerds:

I've certainly been growing the size of my LAN.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 days ago

i remember there were false flags that were raised before when crypto mining operations were flagged as an illegal weed operation