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Utility company's proposal to rat out hidden marijuana operations to police raises privacy concerns (apnews.com)
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[–] hime0321@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

This doesn’t make much sense. How are they supposed to have probable cause? I don’t know how you can have a “reasonable amount of suspicion” from just utility data. They would then have to do more investigating, which makes me think they’ll just have “civilians” check out or just casually walk by places the utility company suspects.