California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Investigators

Re:California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Invest... by rmrfstar on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:22AM (#24211298)

Read the Ebay stalking indictment. They were the B team with extremely limited operational capability. Now imagine they had any of the following, which are all for sale:

* Real-time location from your cell provider

* Real-time AirBnB booking

* Real-time purchases from credit card companies

* Real-time browsing records from your mobile ISP, home ISP, and behavioral advertising networks

* Your complete prescription history from your pharmacy

This is truly the stuff of nightmares. Part of the problem with government data sales is that it normalizes morally abhorrent practices that would not have been tolerated just a few years ago.

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Re:California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Invest... by giantg2 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:48AM (#24211670)

Yep, and the transaction flows the other way too. The government also buys data from databrokers who get it from companies like Facebook, Google, and the data you mentioned.

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Re:California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Invest... by rmrfstar on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:59AM (#24211834)

"In a subtle and deadly way, the dictator can dirty enough people up to make them all complicit in his rule, or I suppose her rule". C. Hitchens (2005). "Why Orwell Matters"

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Re:California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Invest... by dikaio on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:41PM (#24213354)

Are we talking about China or United States?

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