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Privacy and security practice of limiting how long data is stored and collecting only what's needed, often set by contract, policy, or regulation.
Chris Larsen gave the SFPD $9.4 million for its real-time crime centre and now says opposition to plate readers has grown huge in two years. Cities are switching cameras off, which makes retention the live term.
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The company says it is past $500 million in recurring revenue at roughly 16.6 times that figure. What the multiple buys is written into contracts cities have started reopening.
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Drew Breunig pays frontier rates to write the brief and about a ninth as much to implement it. On Anthropic's own prices, that keeps roughly $44 of every $50.
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The breach notice rules out credit card details and confirms names, mobile numbers, order totals and postcodes. The second list is the one that makes a refund-scam call work.
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Flock now asks officers to type a criminal case number before searching its plate-reader network. It told MIT Technology Review it does not verify the numbers.
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Over 90% of partial-plate searches happen within a week, by Flock's own telemetry. That makes the old 30-day default a capacity finding first and a privacy finding second.
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