The Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (also referred to as the "DPPA"), Title XXX of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, is a United States federal statute governing the privacy and disclosure of personal information gathered by state Departments of Motor Vehicles.
Prominent among such cases was physician Susan Wicklund, who faced protests and harassment including her house being picketed for a month.
[11] With the emergence of new-age computing technology and devices in the early 2000s came collection, processing, aggregation, correlation, and redisclosure of user's data.
Websites, 3rd party advertising, and tracking firms began using mechanisms that violated a user's privacy.
The most accurate source of offline data and the cheapest was motor vehicle records maintained by the DMVs.
A new method to litigate Federal privacy cases was needed to protect the hundreds of millions of people violated by unauthorized tracking user's activities “Online” and “Offline” (public records).
In Kehoe v. Fidelity Federal Bank and Trust, James Kehoe sued Fidelity Bank for purchasing hundreds of thousands of motor vehicle records from the state of Florida in violation of the federal Drivers Privacy Protection Act.
Fidelity Bank had purchased 565,600 names and addresses from the Florida motor vehicles department from June 2000 – 2003.
Fidelity used the information to target residents of Palm Beach, Martin, and Broward Counties for car loan solicitations.
While the Kehoe case was on appeal to the 11th circuit, then to SCOTUS, the Law Offices of Joseph Malley P.C.
The Federal Class Actions involving violations of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act ("DPPA"), 18 U.S.C.