Outside of the scope of privacy but also of concern to the public--though seemingly of no concern to City Light--is the risk posed by the ability to remotely disable electrical service with the new meters.  The disruption caused by disabling electrical service at thousands of locations would traditionally require thousands of visits by City Light staff.  Under the new system, presumably anyone who gains access to the control systems can do so, whether that is a City Light employee, a Landis+Gry employee, or a Chinese hacker.  We, the public, cannot learn about such risk, because access to public records that would verify such have been actively hidden from us.