Sacramento’s power company and law enforcement agencies have been running an illegal mass surveillance scheme for years, using our power meters as home-mounted spies. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is seeking to end Sacramento’s dragnet surveillance of energy customers and have asked for a court order to stop this practice for good.
It honestly doesn’t matter if utility corps don’t this: anyone can do this. Which is why you need the PSUs, Faraday cages, and noise filters.
None of which would stop a power company from tracking your usage. Which they have to do in order to know how much to charge you