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Also, as a PSA: Your local state government sells car registration data to data brokers and car manufacturers. It is often used for behavioral targeting.
by jklinger410 3y ago
Also, as a PSA: Your local state government sells car registration data to data brokers and car manufacturers. It is often used for behavioral targeting.
- Tangurena2 3y agoI used to work for a state motor vehicle agency. Federal law requires the manufacturers get your up to date mail address for recall purposes. Legislators make sure that the agencies sell that data (this is the source of those "we've been trying to reach you about your vehicle's warranty" letters/calls). Sometimes they interfere to ensure that their buddies/lobbyists don't pay for it.
- vel0city 3y agoI doubt these datasets have anything to do with the "we've been trying to reach you about your vehicle's warranty" calls, as I know people who got a lot of those calls but never owned a vehicle (some were even minors!). Every time I listened to one of their messages it never had any actual targeted car information.
- jen20 3y agoEvery time I've bought a car recently (which for Reasons has been a few times), I've ended up with utter scum sending mail designed to look "official" while skirting the actual reserved terms trying to scam me into extended warranties and so forth. If I had more time I would use their free return address to ship boxes of broken bricks.