A number of public departments sell personal data in the U.S. In 2019, California’s DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) reportedly earned $51 million.
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Verdict
renamedThe same phenomenon is listed again within two editions under a new name (D33). Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2022-149
Public entities selling personal data continue; the 2022 label adds buying (one step broader, precedent 2021-196, 2021-417).
A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).
The same forecast in other editions
All captured fields
- rank
- 290
- section
- Privacy & Security
- subsection
- Privacy
- subject
- Public Entities Selling Private Data
- page
- 309
- confidence
- high