Friday, May 06, 2005

~ Utah changes DMV access law ~

Insurance companies are now going to have to request driver license updates on an individual name basis rather than a daily pooled update of all drivers.
In a ruling that gives additional privacy protection to drivers in Utah, the state Court of Appeals yesterday ruled that companies may no longer obtain the entire driver history database from Utah's department of motor vehicles. Instead, any company that wishes to check the record of a customer may only request information on that specific, individual customer. Read the opinion