alt Hacker NewsI would argue that the request was invalid in the first place.
If I see a flash on a speed camera operated by a business on behalf of a police department, your argument states I should be able to use CCPA to force the business to delete my picture and the record of me speeding If I can get the request to them before the police can file with the court and request that data as evidence.
The data belongs to the government, and you can't get around that right by going to business that holds the data and asking them to delete it.
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But we're not talking about speed cameras or a private entity with exclusive contract with the police to provide traffic enforcement.
We're talking about Flock. A company offering surveillance as a service. Per their website:
>Trusted by over 12,000 public safety customers including cities, towns, counties, and business partners.
If Flock's argument holds then most of the CCPA be circumvented this same way. All it takes is a few entities and clever contract language.
Except the data does NOT belong to the government, that's the whole point of Flock operating the way it does. It's not governmental data collection it's data collection by a private company that is then made available to the government upon request. And yeah: it is literally allowed to delete data, because again: it's not a government agency, it's just private data, collected by a private company, with the exact same status as you recording an public intersection with a camera from your window.
> If I see a flash on a speed camera operated by a business on behalf of a police department, your argument states I should be able to use CCPA to force the business to delete my picture and the record of me speeding If I can get the request to them before the police can file with the court and request that data as evidence.
Sounds reasonable to me. If the police want to put up a camera, then the police should put up a camera.
Offloading their legal responsibilities to a third party company is shitty.