LOSER PAYS

JUST CHARGE THE FINE TO THE VICTIMS:

The State of Florida sold personal information from its drivers license data base to private marketing companies, including each driving citizen's name, address, and Social Security number.
It made $108 million on the sales over a four-year period -- the four years after such sales were made illegal by federal law.
When several Floridians sued, the state refused to admit wrongdoing, but agreed to settle for $10.4 million, which will be divided up this way: the drivers who sued, $3000 each. Everyone else: a $1 credit on their next car registration fee. The five law firms that worked on the suit: $2.85 million. Federal law calls for a $2500 penalty for each violation, which would have come to $39 billion. (St. Petersburg Times) ...Which would penalize citizens even more.

So how about ten years in prison for every state official who went along with the scheme?
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