A police officer in Minnesota has been awarded $585,000 after winning a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and two fellow police officers after a database containing her driving license data was abused and her information was looked up without permission. As reported by Wired, Amy Krekelberg received a notice from Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources in 2013 which explained how an employee had abused his access to a database containing her DMV records — alongside thousands of other people, mostly women, whose data was similarly accessed without permission or cause.

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