Anyhoo... guess what showed up in my mailbox a week later?
See that pink post card?
it's from a company known as "US Automotive Protection Services"
Google em. You'll find out all sorts of fun stuff about em
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In order to understand this, you have to understand the Colorado DMV has been selling personal data for years
Through an open records request, we found 1 company - Colorado Interactive, AKA NIC Colorado - has purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars of bulk data for years
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But here's the deal...
You might not like that, but it's reality. There's all sorts of reasons why states sell DMV data.
And those reasons are largely permitted under federal law.
There's just one catch. You can't use DMV data for, well, we'll let the contract say it.
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Catching on?
David and I both received pitches for car warranty companies -- one of which has an F rating with the BBB -- a week after we registered cars.
And if -- a big IF right now -- those companies got our info from DMV data, it could be illegal under federal law.
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And, trust this guy, this ISN'T just about car warranty companies.
If there's a hole in how DMV data is being used, it could result in all sorts of OUR personal information ending up in places where we might not want it to end up in
(This is Joe Malley. Texas attorney)
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Malley has sued lots of people for misuse of DMV data
There are a lot of people who don't want to be found, he says. Victims of domestic violence, for one
The federal law to protect DMV data started after the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer. She was found w/DMV data
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Malley says we found a leak in Colorado DMV data with our little "buy a car for a dollar" stunt.
"states have been totally, totally careless with our data," he told me.
The problem is... where is the leak? As of now, we can't say. Neither can the state.
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But we can say this...
I showed the head of the department that runs Colorado DMV what showed up in my mailbox...
and a few weeks later, the state opened up an investigation,
the state Attorney General now involved too.
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I'll leave it at that for now.
There's a LOT more to this story.
Which is why we'll have much more on this investigation tonight on @9NEWS at 9 and 10.
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One more thing...
If YOU have gotten one of these post cards shortly after registering your car with the Colorado DMV...
I'd really like to hear from you.
My email is chris@9news.com
And thanks Dave for the tip! (we do read those things)
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You'd think more than 48 hours after the start of the ICE raids in Denver/Aurora we'd know just how many people were detained/taken into custody.
We don't
And that's now the story
Let's talk about it. Two days ago the feds said it was trying to arrest 100 TDA members
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Yesterday, we asked ICE how many were detained
Seemed like a simple request. FOX News, after all, had reported 30. Keep in mind, FOX had a reason to know. They had a team embedded with ICE on Wednesday.
Let's talk about some of the reporting on the ICE raids that took place in Denver/Aurora yesterday.
There are clearly some inaccuracies circulating online right now
Let's start with this one
It's categorically not true.
(this aired this morning on @FoxNews)
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Later this morning, reporter @BillMelugin_ reported what ICE, for some inexplicable reason, has only shared with him (and his crew that was embedded with ICE yesterday)
He reported 30 arrests. Only ONE TDA member
This makes sense based upon what our crews saw yesterday
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The low number of arrests has led some to imply that the migrants had to be tipped off...
The embedded Fox crew, for example, seemed to be surprised to see a @9news crew already at a raid location when they arrived in Thornton.
The man accused of murdering two and injuring two others along the 16th St. Mall over the weekend has a complicated past.
One that's already led to some confusion.
I'd like to share what we've learned today about Elijah Caudill, 24, in this THREAD
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A few things are clear
Caudill is a convicted felon who has spent time in both state prison system and in various jails since 2021
He was paroled in Aug 23 after a 4.5 months in prison on a THEFT case.
His first arrest as an adult came in 19. For stealing baseball cards
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That case was dropped. Things escalated in 2021 when a propety manager told Westminster police Caudill threatened him with a knife before saying, "I will cut your f---ing throat"
The one thing you have to realize in the ridiculous and messy world of the US health care system is that no one typically pays the list price for anything.
Not for ER visits. Not for CTs. And not for rx drugs.
The latter is a mess. And one that still confuses me…but…
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Earlier this year the Commonwealth Fund did a study on the 10 drugs Medicare (the govt) will now “negotiate” prices on.
It’s a remarkably nerdy read. But one that’s important.