As I mentioned in reply to another comment, the restrictions on use are listed in section (b)Permissible Uses of the DPPA. The price varies considerably depend

As I mentioned in reply to another comment, the restrictions on use are listed in section (b)Permissible Uses of the DPPA. The price varies considerably depending upon what kind of data you're after (and setting aside volume discounts). Things like driver's license searches, vehicle searches, auto accidents, and moving violation history cost $0.50 to $2.00 if you're buying a la carte, but you're usually getting these data as part of a report costing $5.00 to $10.00. You can pull detailed driving records from about 18 different states at cost of anywhere between $7 and $25, depending on which state it is (these reports are a la carte only). I don't have a license agreement I'm allowed to send you, but I can tell you that many government agencies around the country have contracts with these brokers, so if you know the name of the product/company selling the data then you can find some of the contracts online. Except for those expensive reports, you never really know where the data you're looking at came from. I suppose I could run identical searches on people with the DPPA data flag turned on or off to compare but haven't had occasion to. You basically just get back whatever fields you request-- they might be populated with DPPA data and they might not. You never know and the broker's don't annotate the response with anything indicating the data's provenance.