State of Florida Sold Personal Information from Registration and Driver License Records to Mass Marketers
August 26th, 2009Via: Miami Herald:
Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet have agreed to pay the federal government $1.5 million to settle a complaint that the state violated motorists’ privacy.
The panel accepted the deal Tuesday, but it also will need the Legislature’s approval.
Florida violated federal law by selling personal information from registration and driver license records to mass marketers from June 1, 2000 through Sept. 30, 2004.
State law then had let motorists opt out of the program. Federal law, though, required just the opposite – that information be withheld unless motorists asked for it to be released.
The state previously settled a lawsuit for $10.4 million by agreeing to give motorists $1 off 2009-10 registration fees.
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