A federal appeals court is reinstating a class-action privacy suit, ruling that police departments who put too much private data on parking citations are breaching federal privacy law. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the police department of Pallantine Village, a Chicago suburb. When issuing electronically produced parking citations, the department lists the vehicle owner’s name, address, driver’s license number, date of birth, sex, height and weight. That ticket and accompanying information is usually left underneath a vehicle’s windshield-wiper blade.
