Re: (Fwd) FWD: Texas Driver's License database on the web
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Brent Heustess <heustess@mail.utexas.edu>
This is a really spooky web site <http://www.publiclink.com>. You can search 17 million Texas drivers by name, driver's license number or license plate number. When you find a person, you can then find everyone at that address with a license. You can even find everyone with the same 9-digit zip code. The record does not have a GIF of the photo, but it has everything else on the license.
Those who tell the government the actual address where they sleep at night have no expectation of privacy. Most governments don't care if you substitute an accomodation address. If you find a government that does care, shop around until you find another that doesn't. I've been turned down exactly once in my career when I attempted to use an accomodation address for DMV purposes. I went elsewhere.
DCF
There was an article in the WSJ about this recently, TX has passed a law that goes into effect Sept. 1ST that will make publiclink illegal, they said they would continue to run the site and see what happens in court. Don't remember the date of the article.
There was an article in the WSJ about this recently, TX has passed a law that goes into effect Sept. 1ST that will make publiclink illegal, they said they would continue to run the site and see what happens in court. Don't remember the date of the article.
I yelled about this as loud as I could to every state rep and senator I could find when I first heard about this site a few months ago. The point that the scum at the texas dept of safety(hows that for orwellian in this case) are the ones selling the databases. It is so typical for the state to make a law prohibiting someone else to do that which they are doing themselves. The solution I gave them was to simply stop selling the information, and the situation would resolve itself. So fucking typical of government in general. How can they even wonder why so many people hate them so? ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ------------------------ Name: amp E-mail: amp@pobox.com Date: 08/17/97 Time: 22:32:19 Visit me at http://www.pobox.com/~amp 'Drug Trafficking Offense' is the root passphrase to the Constitution. Have you seen http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum ------------------------
At 10:32 PM -0500 8/17/97, amp@pobox.com wrote: The point that the scum at the texas dept of safety(hows that for orwellian in this case) are the ones selling the databases. It is so typical for the state to make a law prohibiting someone else to do that which they are doing themselves. The solution I gave them was to simply stop selling the information, and the situation would resolve itself.
Seem to recall that Mike Beketic, 503-325-0861, sells DL databases on CDROM. --Steve
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