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    Consumer Confidential: FasTrak agencies may have sold out your privacy. Now they want legal immunity

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Aug 13, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Transit authorities statewide have been targeted with lawsuits alleging that, among other privacy violations, information from toll-road transponders - think FasTrak - is being used to illegally market to drivers.

    Transit agencies have taken the legal threat seriously enough that they've enlisted a Southern California state senator to introduce legislation giving them retroactive immunity - that is, a get-out-of-jail-free card for any past misdeeds.

    At stake is potentially billions of dollars in fines.

    And also your personal information.

    "The transit agencies are apparently saying that there have been so many violations, if they don't receive retroactive protection, they could

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