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Avenger42 | 5 years ago
We have to call you to find out if you leaked our information? That's some idiotic logic right there. I didn't call you to put my information in your systems, I shouldn't have to call you to find out if you lost it.
> "The department only allows outside use of information for reasons found in Transportation Code Chapter 730 and the Federal Drivers Privacy Protection Act. These laws permit, and at times require, the release of motor vehicle records to authorized parties."
Texas should pass a law requiring any companies who become 'authorized parties' to proactively respond in case of a breach by sending registered letters to everyone affected, telling them how to sign up for the credit monitoring they're entitled to.
Spooky23|5 years ago
DMVs sell just about everything, using fairly standardized contract models that the association of DMVs coordinates,
In some states, it’s illegal for DMV to give other agencies, say a tax department, most information, so the other entity buys the data from a broker. Similar to the contracts with companies like LexisNexis and Thompson where the government needs to pay for a subscription to access its own laws.
austincheney|5 years ago
They also didn't release anything that wasn't already available by a variety of other means. This is all non-sensitive public data.
So many comments in this thread are an ad hoc emotional (crying) response to the phrase leaked data without any thought as to actual harms.
effingwewt|5 years ago
>Driver's license numbers, names, birthdates, addresses, and vehicle registration information were stolen for nearly 28 million Texas drivers who received a license before February of 2019.
"There's a lot an identity thief can do with this information. They can try to create a new account and they can try to prove they are you when they're logging in to an existing account," said James Lee with the Identity Theft Resource Center.<
No idea about you, but I don't make any of that info public.
coldcode|5 years ago