Rep. Peggy Gossett-Seidman wants to end Florida’s controversial and highly profitable practice of selling drivers’ personal information to private companies without their consent.

This month, she filed HB 357 , which would shut down a long-running data-sharing system within the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles ( DMV ) that has quietly sold driver’s license and ID card information to private data brokers, insurance analytics companies and foreign-owned firms.

The legislation would ban all commercial sales of Florida driver data, block foreign and foreign-owned companies from accessing DMV records and require written consent before any disclosure to non-law-enforcement entities.

Information shared has included license holders’ names, photos, license numbers, birth

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