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US Monitoring Database Reaches Limit, Quits Tracking Felons and Parolees

Posted by timothy on from the paid-by-the-row dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Thousands of US sex offenders, prisoners on parole and other convicts were left unmonitored after an electronic tagging system shut down because of data overload. BI Incorporated, which runs the system, reached its data threshold — more than two billion records — on Tuesday. This left authorities across 49 states unaware of offenders' movement for about 12 hours." As the astonished submitter asks, "2 billion records?"

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  1. Re:1 in 31 US Citizens in custody or parole by Dexter+Herbivore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're posting in the wrong thread, the thread you're looking for is here.