U.S. seeks $2.5m from Fla. over driver info sale
MIAMI (AP) – The federal government is suing Florida for $2.5 million for the state’s past sales of personal information from motor vehicle records.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in Miami seeks $5,000 in civil penalties for each day the state failed to comply with a federal driver privacy law. The state wrongly disclosed some 30 million records for a fee between May 2003 and October 2004, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
The state has admitted it disclosed the information and didn’t comply with the law. Last year, Florida settled a lawsuit involving the similar allegations by agreeing to reduce registration renewals by $1 in 2009-10.
The Justice Department wants a Miami federal judge to order Florida to pay the U.S. $2.5 million for the practice.