Latest Headlines
- Community Health Northwest Florida Targeted In Cyberattack
- Walnut Hill Convicted Felon Facing Weapons Charge In Atmore
- One Injured In Highway 29 Crash Near Roberts Road
- Softball Team Remembers Teammate Killed In Pace Wreck
- Wanted Flomaton Man Arrested On Drug Charges After Allegedly Breaking Into Home While Fleeing Police
- It’s Easy To Recycle Your Wrapping Paper And Boxes
- Escambia Deputies Seek Christmas Day Attempted Homicide Suspect
- Escambia County Again Seeking Applicants For Escambia Children’s Trust
- Ice Flyers Get Rewarding Win Against Macon Mayhem
- ECFR Says McDavid Mobile Home Fire Was Sparked By Trash Fire; Firefighters Respond To Ascend
ACLU Calls For End To Selling Florida Driver’s License Info
July 27, 2011
In the wake of newspaper reports about Florida selling driver license information to private companies, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is calling on Gov. Rick Scott to end the contract.
The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said it made $73 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30 from the sale of driver license information, which has been allowed by state law for decades, and is done by other states.
The information is public record, so vendors could get it for free if they wanted, but the state makes it easier for them and sells it.
The St. Petersburg Times reported Tuesday on a letter sent by ACLU Florida Director Howard Simon to Gov. Rick Scott urging the state to end the contract, saying it lacks oversight and violates expectations of privacy.
Comments
7 Responses to “ACLU Calls For End To Selling Florida Driver’s License Info”
REGARDING:
” Any entity should be stopped from gathering and selling citizens information.”
‘Twould be hard to do considering:
“Congress shall make no law – - – abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; – - – ”
The press gathers information and sells it to anyone interested. (northescambia.com GIVES it away.) You can’t outlaw it until you amend the Constitution to allow you to outlaw a free press and freedom of speech.
There is no real privacy outside our own homes and most people have even hooked our homes up to the outside world such that our water consumption, power usage, gas use can be read from outside our homes. Our credit card company knows what we buy, whether they sell it or not, they KNOW. Some people talk and/or yell so loudly that people a thousand feet away can know their business whether we want to or not.
David in a fish bowl
Just how much was my information worth ?
As a reminder, which is sited in this article, Driver’s License numbers are public record. You can access the public records that include more than just your license number in a few clicks on websites for the county.
There are places on the internet where you can “buy” information on practically everyone in the US. Any entity should be stopped from gathering and selling citizens information.
Where does our information go?
I have never been a fan of the ACLU, but this is atrocious. This is one of the most blatant cases of Invasion of Privacy I have ever witnessed. It should be stopped immediately.
It really makes you wonder why the state was allowed to sell my information and exactly who they sold it to! I guess you can not trust the state anymore to keep our information private!