What is a required by law or your power corporation smart power meter? :) Are you sure we don't do that? (Water meters more often than not as well.) What are

What is a required by law or your power corporation smart power meter? :) Are you sure we don't do that? (Water meters more often than not as well.) What are the chances your gas station does not record the plates and gas purchase data together? Or the credit card number. Or perhaps even driver's license number in some places. Etc. Ad nauseam. The data is just not directly available to either the consumer or the government. That does not make for good privacy though.