California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Investigators

Re:California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Invest... by lazzlazzlazz on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:56PM (#24213592)

Really? This seems like a pretty clear explanation to me.

They are required by law to provide information. That's not selling... that's just complying with their obligation to provide certain data.

And they charge a fee for it.

In other words, if you want to prevent them from providing information, you need to change the laws requiring they share information.

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Re:California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Invest... by jjeaff on Thursday August 20, 2020 @02:47PM (#24227008)

Sort of?

Is Amazon not "selling" retail products because they aren't really making a profit on it? In fact, they aren't always even recouping their full cost of selling products, those losses are offset by other revenue streams like aws.

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Re:California DMV Is Selling Drivers' Data to Private Invest... by derimagia on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:37PM (#24215197)

Doesn't make complete sense to me. If they are complying with their obligation but they can charge a fee why wouldn't they be able to increase the fee enough to get out of actually providing the information?

EDIT: I think I got it - I am hearing the fee is equal to the amount it costs them to provide it.

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