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By Dave Lieber
Dallas Morning News Columnist
The Watchdog asks, why doesn’t the state do a better job protecting our privacy?
The Watchdog’s revelation that personal information on 27 million past and present Texas driver’s license holders is for sale on the dark web leaves many Texans incensed.
Texas state government sells its data sets to outside parties who are not allowed to use them for marketing purposes. But some of these companies then resell to companies who do use it to sell and annoy us.
