In California, the Oakland Police Department has announced that it will now store license-plate reader data for six months, a new policy catalyzed by its server system consistently crashing due to the large amounts of information it was required to retain, Ars Technica reports. “Looking back at a year doesn't help you solve a case," said Oakland Sgt. Dave Burke. “There is no plan to store the data beyond six months. The investigators are not looking for data beyond six months. It does us no good to have these datasets if we do not mine them for intelligence.”
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