Department of Homeland Security is behind ‘Smart Meter’ surveillance

‘Police all over the country are using ‘Smart Meter’ data to identify homes that are potentially growing marijuana. Homes that grow marijuana tend to use more electricity than other homes.

In 2011, the Columbus Dispatch reported that at an average of 60 subpoenas are filed each month statewide by law-enforcement agencies seeking energy-use records from various utility companies.
“We’re obligated when we get these requests,” a spokesperson for American Electric Power said to the newspaper at the time. “There’s not an option to say no.”’

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