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Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by gddvhy on Friday November 22, 2019 @03:40PM (#21609827)
If you get drivers info by hacking a DMV database, it's prison. If you got the same details by paying a few millions for FOIA requests, you're a good citizen and a model tax payer.
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Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by erichurkman on Friday November 22, 2019 @04:49PM (#21610475)
Unless you're the state of Florida, and you make millions by selling the DMV database to private buyers... [0]

[0] https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investi...

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Re:Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered... by filoleg on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:17PM (#21611141)
Jokes aside, can you really file FOIA requests to get personal driver details from DMV? I thought FOIA would only apply for stuff that is meant to be public, but isn't due to difficulties of hosting, putting it up, etc.

Mind you, I didn't research the topic of what can or cannot be requested with FOIA, so I might be totally wrong.

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