Oregon DMV brings in millions of dollars selling your information. Here's how.

[mountaineer]

And in how many other states, I wonder?

Oregon DMV brings in millions of dollars selling your information. Here's how.
by Wright Gazaway
Mon, August 11th 2025 at 2:29 PM; Updated Tue, August 12th 2025 at 10:42 PM
KATU

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) brings in millions of dollars a year selling drivers’ personal information to qualified buyers, ranging from insurance companies to private investigators.

State law outlines 19 exceptions for qualified entities to buy the personal information from the state or so-called “bulk buyers” who buy it from the DMV.

“The majority of DMV records are considered a public record and are available by making a request and paying a fee,” said Robert Craig Daniels, the DMV Records Section Manager and Privacy Officer.

Daniels and his team process the requests for personal information. Records show the DMV has processed nearly seven million requests for this information since 2020, charging those buyers more than $60 million across the same time period. A DMV spokesperson said the money is split between the DMV, ODOT, and the state agency that maintains the data. ...

andy chandler
@azcfilm
Oregon DMV sells your data and brings in millions of dollars from the data sold, there's no way to opt-out. In the past few years Oregon DMV has had major scandals including mistakenly enrolling thousands of non-citizens to vote and a data breach of 3.5 million Oregonians.
6:13 PM · Aug 11, 2025

[Free Vulcan]

Now being in the digital age, things that used to not have much value now do - like your personal information.

Unfortunately our legal system was crafted long before that and has not caught up. Something that is my property and has value should either be asked permission before it is sold, or I get a cut of the proceeds. But the legal lag creates a gray area that the Left c an exploit.

[Wingnut]

The Disabled American Veterans, recognized the impact it would have with the outset of World War II. In 1941, To raise funds, DAV launched a direct mail campaign, distributing “IdentoTags”, miniature license plates which could be attached to a keyring with instructions that lost keys should be mailed to the DAV, who would return them to the owners. The DAV got state motor vehicle departments to co-operate and provide mailing lists of the people who registered their cars. The DAV mailed key-chain tags with your license plate number on it, and asked for a donation. Thus, if you lost your keys, the finder would drop them into a mail box, the keys would be forwarded to the DAV which would return them to you. The program continued from 1941 through 1975, and was ended because of a “right to privacy” rule.

How is what Oregon doing legal?

[Smokin Joe]

The Disabled American Veterans, recognized the impact it would have with the outset of World War II. In 1941, To raise funds, DAV launched a direct mail campaign, distributing “IdentoTags”, miniature license plates which could be attached to a keyring with instructions that lost keys should be mailed to the DAV, who would return them to the owners. The DAV got state motor vehicle departments to co-operate and provide mailing lists of the people who registered their cars. The DAV mailed key-chain tags with your license plate number on it, and asked for a donation. Thus, if you lost your keys, the finder would drop them into a mail box, the keys would be forwarded to the DAV which would return them to you. The program continued from 1941 through 1975, and was ended because of a “right to privacy” rule.
How is what Oregon doing legal?

I remember those tags!

[Wingnut]

I remember those tags!

They were cool! It was for a good cause.  My Dad had a drawer full of his dating back to the 60's we found after his passing.    Lawyers and liberals kill every thing good.