How Virginia Addresses Privacy in Pay as You Drive Tax

What is happening? Virginia is addressing the privacy concerns related to pay as you drive tax programs by:

• prohibiting the sale of data collected under that state’s pilot fee-per-mile program
• prohibiting access to the data through a public records request
• Prohibiting the data to be used for any purpose other than to collect unpaid fees
• making the program opt-in for Virginians

Why does this matter? A vocal criticism of pay as you drive tax systems is privacy- can information related to your driving be released publicly, who holds the information, and for how long.

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