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I would also settle for some California legislation that would kill Vigilant’s business model.

It might be time for a group of tech people to write some initiatives to limit these kind of business models. This kind of behavior should be pretty simple to get Californians to vote for.

The hard thing would be getting enough signatures on the ballot, that costs a million bucks usually. Of course that can be powerful, consider the recent surprising rush for privacy policy legislation.

More than this?

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

That’s actually pretty solid. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

How solid is it?

You can easily keep license plate data much longer by simply stating, "we are using it as evidence". For what? "An on-going investigation."

Done. Now you have it for much longer than 60 days.

It’s substantially better than no governance and oversight, and additional reporting of deviations can be mandated (require documentation of what ongoing investigations data retention extension requests are tied to).

You have to start somewhere.

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