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>>> But it sounds like this case is different - the companies in question didn't submit FOIA requests, the DMV sold them for profit. The way I interpreted it (
by jonwachob91 7y ago
>>> But it sounds like this case is different - the companies in question didn't submit FOIA requests, the DMV sold them for profit.
The way I interpreted it (and from prior experience with FOIA requests), a government agency can charge you a fee for processing a FOIA request. So the $77MM that the FL DMV made from "sales" of personal information, I interpret as FOIA fees collected for processing FOIA requests.
I could be wrong, that just how I interpreted the article.
- pavel_lishin 7y agoI thought that could be true as well, but this line from the article makes me think otherwise: > One of the data brokers accessing Florida DMV information is Arkansas-based marketing firm Acxiom, which has an agreement with the state to buy driver and ID cardholder data for a penny a record. Maybe that's just some sort of agreement to automate the FOIA process, but it does imply at least a qualitative difference from the kinds of access you and I get vs. the kind of access that Acxiom gets.