Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (1994)

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• requires states to protect the privacy of personal information contained in motor vehicle records
• Protected information includes any personal data in the record:
  • such as the driver’s name, address, phone number, SSN, driver’s license identification number, photograph, height, weight, sex, and date of birth
• One of the reasons for introducing the Act was the 1989 murder of a California actor
  • A stalker obtained the actor’s address from the California Department of Motor Vehicles
  • then later went to the actor’s home and killed her