Concerns about privacy or readers policy

Before ran a story in “Washington Post” last month on the sale of drivers’ licences States digitized photographs to private companies for use in anti-fraud, activity was virtually nothing known about which remains development of the practice of using Photos of the car for commercial purposes.The image data, Nashua, NH, aims to create a national database of photos and other personal information to help retailers avoid fraud. The idea is that a computer system is a distributor of the photo of a consumer who is trying to payment by cheque or credit card.

Verification services are nothing new, but the use of photos is a new wrinkle. Proponents argue that the new benefit is the protection of consumers by preventing fraud and identity theft. Supporters of confidentiality, you will find in practice as another element of the Supervision Law and as citizens of a continued use of vehicles data for nothing.

Florida, South Carolina and Colorado with this image. In all three countries, the sale of photographs has been authorized by an amendment, never by the legislature at the end of the 1997 session, with little public debate or awareness. The New Hampshire legislature, but has refused to cooperate, even if the image is in this state.

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