There are those who “need” to see it, and there are those who “want” to see it. It’s important to differentiate.
Another presumption on your part.
You interpret “PA sells records to x company” as “PA sells ENTIRE SET of driver records to x company”.
I sincerely doubt this is the case, again, because the article makes no specific mention of it one way or another.
Consider this - I can think of 10 car manufacturers off the top of my head. Another google shows over 2500 towns and municipalities in PA. Multiplying that out gives 25,000 private companies able to get driving records.
So if you go to a car dealer who wants to check your record before letting you test drive, this would be a legitimate purpose, yes? If not, how about auto policy quotes, rentals?
If every dealership has checked records for this reason, the article could “truthfully” say that PA sold records to 25,000 companies.
If the article had a headline such as:
PA mans goes to State Farm for auto policy quote - agent checks his driving record!
You probably would not click on that headline, would you.
Don’t be a sap.