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Lawsuit: California utility targeted Asians in pot searches

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Sacramento Municipal Utility District scoured entire ZIP codes worth of power usage information for the Sacramento Police Department. The utility would turn over a list of customers who used more than a certain threshold amount of energy in a month, the lawsuit alleges. A police analyst removed non-Asian names from a list provided by the utility, forwarding only Asian-sounding names for more investigation.

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Lawsuit: California utility targeted Asians in pot searches

2 years ago·Canada

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Lawsuit: California Utility Targeted Asians in Pot Searches

A data privacy watchdog's lawsuit says a Northern California utility routinely fed customers’ power use information to police so they could target illicit...

2 years ago·United States

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Lawsuit: California utility targeted Asians in pot searches

A data privacy watchdog's lawsuit says a Northern California utility routinely fed customers’ power use information to police so they could target illicit marijuana grows, without requiring a warrant or suspicion of wrongdoing

2 years ago·United States

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Lawsuit: California utility targeted Asians in pot searches

Extraordinary use of electricity has long been a telltale sign of illegal grow houses producing thousands of marijuana plants hidden in seemingly ordinary homes.But a lawsuit filed by a data privacy watchdog says a Northern California utility went too far by racially profiling Asian communities as it routinely fed customers' power use information to police without requiring a warrant or any suspicion of wrongdoing, in violation of state laws. Th…

2 years ago·Miami, United States

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