The non-profit digital human rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF, donation link) asserts that electricity provider SMUD in Sacramento County conducted racial profiling and surveillance of customers, passing tips of suspected drug manufacturing to local law enforcement. All this in violation of the California Constitution’s protection of reasonable privacy within the home. EFF and plaintiff Asian American Liberation Network seek a court order to prohibit further carte-blanche sharing of confidential customer information with law enforcement agencies, unless such an agency already has cause for initial suspicion.