Florida DMV sells personal info to private companies, marketing firms
><i>The I-Team wanted to know how much of that money came from marketing firms, but the agency in charge of driver information estimated it would take 154 hours of research and cost nearly $3,000 for the state to give taxpayers an answer.</i><p>I'm no rocket scientist but $3,000 (USD) is less than $77M (USD), yeah?<p>><i>That’s because Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said companies buying data on Floridians are not allowed to use that information for marketing.</i><p>What did they <i>expect</i> it to be used for? Genealogy reports? /s