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This would be a good step. Others have brought up problems with this but another one is that companies get paid by police agencies to provide these data in res

This would be a good step. Others have brought up problems with this but another one is that companies get paid by police agencies to provide these data in response to records requests, they are incentivized to not rate-limit these responses.

verve_rat 5y ago
How much are they paid? It seems unlikely that they get enough income to cover a department dedicated to this processing, let alone make significant money out of it.
- tehwebguy 5y ago
  I’d guess the processing they do is minimal and that the rate they charge goes up every year.