Texas DMV Makes $3M Selling Drivers' Info

kbaxter60 · Feb 21, 2020

This kinda pisses me off. We pay THEM so they can make money selling us out?
And they say it's not used for "solicitation". Well, then who is buying it and what IS it used for???

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/02/20/texas-dmv-selling-drivers-personal-information/

Bozz10mm · Feb 21, 2020

Damn. That sucks.

“When we find a company misusing the information, we take administrative action to terminate their contracts or cut them off or take other administrative actions to make sure that misuse does not continue,” said Kuntz.

Too late by then.

Kar98 · Feb 21, 2020

They ARE a bunch of Kuntz!

SA_Steve · Feb 22, 2020

I live in San Antonio and everytime someone reports a bad driver's lic plate number, someone on the nextdoor app for my area publishes his info.

Way too many companies have this info. I remember when the internet was young it was available free from a co based in the Caribbean, one of those islands. That's back when TX gave away the info for free, you supply the data tape, they would write the data for free.

txinvestigator · Feb 22, 2020

SA_Steve said:
I live in San Antonio and everytime someone reports a bad driver's lic plate number, someone on the nextdoor app for my area publishes his info.

Way too many companies have this info. I remember when the internet was young it was available free from a co based in the Caribbean, one of those islands. That's back when TX gave away the info for free, you supply the data tape, they would write the data for free.

You are referring to Public Data.com.

Same company does online searches today

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