A Florida lawmaker has introduced legislation that seeks to end a statewide practice of selling residents’ driver’s licenses and ID card information to private companies, data brokers, insurance analytics firms, and foreign-owned entities.

Florida Rep. Peggy Gossett-Seidman (R-District 91) filed the Motor Vehicle Operator Privacy Act on Sunday, stating that for more than 15 years, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has operated data-sharing agreements that generated over $490 million from selling driver information, according to public audits and investigations.

The data sold includes names, addresses, birth dates, driver license numbers, driving histories, crash records, vehicle information, organ-donor status, physical descriptors, commercial driver’s

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