Mercury News reports on January 16, 2003:

California's Department of Motor Vehicles has banned Allstate Insurance from checking driver records online after Allstate employees were caught illegally snooping through records of friends, family and others."

Read Illegal snooping costs Allstate access to online DMV records by Deborah Lohse for Mercury News. Thanks to Computer Privacy Digest for the lead.

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