SAN ANTONIO, Texas ( InvestigateTV ) — When victims of crime, battered women, and teenagers just learning to drive apply for a driver’s license or a car registration, they are unknowingly forfeiting their privacy rights and allowing states to sell their information to third parties.
Debt collectors and private investigators are among a list of entities permitted by federal law to buy that information from state licensing agencies. That means those third parties are collecting individuals’ addresses, phone numbers, driving history, and other information that Americans may want to keep private.
It’s an issue that impacts everyone with a driver’s license or a vehicle, including Nikki, a mother of six from San Antonio who has had suspicions she’s been stalked and her devices hacked. She ha

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