Court rules warrants are needed for cops to access smart electrical meter data

You can tell a lot about what's going on in a home from how much electricity it's using — especially when that information is collected every few minutes and recorded centrally. It's revealing enough that a federal judge has ruled that people with smart meters have a reasonable expectation of privacy and as such law enforcement will require a warrant to acquire that data. https://ift.tt/2o42cck Devin Coldewey August 22, 2018 at 09:00PM