A Florida lawmaker is accusing the state of selling personal information to third parties and generating nearly half a billion dollars from the sale of driver’s licenses and ID card information.

State Representative Peggy Gossett-Seidman said she is looking to change that through the Motor Vehicle Operator Privacy Act, a bill that aims to ban all commercial sales of driver’s license and ID-card information.

The bill is still in the very early stages, but it comes after claims that the state has been taking personal information on driver’s licenses and ID cards, and selling them to third parties like data brokers, insurance firms, and foreign-owned entities.

What this includes is birthdates, crash records, names and addresses.

Gossett-Seidman said she’s heard accounts of people going to

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