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SMART METER AWARENESS v. CITY OF NAPERVILLE
United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division (2015) | 114 F.Supp.3d 606
TL;DR: A citizens' group claimed a city's use of 'smart meters' to collect detailed electricity data was an unconstitutional search. The court dismissed the claim, finding that allegations of what the city *could* do with the data were too speculative to constitute a Fourth Amendment violation.
Legal Significance: This case demonstrates that for a data collection program to constitute a Fourth Amendment search, a plaintiff must plausibly allege not just the technological *capability* for intrusion, but that the government is *actually using* the data to reveal intimate details of private life.