Both Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Transport Secretary, James H. Trogdon III have to explain to young drivers and their parents why the safety and integrity of their personally identifiable information (which includes name, address, date-of-birth, drivers license particulars and Social Security number) are being placed at risk on a daily basis by consumer reporting agencies, data brokers, and so-called insurance industry support organizations.Day in and day out, our children's driver license and vehicle records held on NC-DMV databases are downloaded and sold as a commodity to practically anyone with a ‘perceived’ legitimate purpose for acquiring it. Which unfortunately all too often includes those individuals who do not have our youngsters best interests at heart.
The fact is, law enforcement officials, private investigators, debt collectors, sales and marketing professionals and even convicted identity thieves will all tell you that a person’s current driver’s license and vehicle ownership particulars are the most valuable data asset in today’s digital universe for finding someone and monitoring them on a continuous basis. How creepy is that?
Explaining to parents that a loophole in the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 permits consumer data traffickers to gather DMV records on our kids (and adults) and sell it on to practically anyone is most definitely not an acceptable explanation in 2017.
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