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WebFerret
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The DVLA should be sued under the Data Protection Act
Dec 9 2007, 7:24 AM EST | Post edited: Dec 9 2007, 7:24 AM EST
Check this out:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=424553&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments

The DVLA sells your private and confidential data to rouge, unchecked private individuals for profit - The DVLA charges £2.50 for each piece of data, collecting a £9 million windfall for the Government since 2002.

Information Commissioner Richard Thomas warned the DVLA back in 2002 that the sale of personal details could be illegal but has done nothing to stop it.

Over the six-week period, one firm alone, Creative Car Park Management (CCPM), obtained the addresses of 2,746 drivers from DVLA. It has contracts with the Co-op, Kwik Save and Aldi, and demands fines of up to £170.

A year ago this newspaper discovered that among those given driver details was a firm run by Britain's most notorious clamping thugs, Gordon Miller and Darren Havell, who were serving seven years' jail between them for extorting money from motorists.

A DVLA spokesman said: "The DVLA is extremely serious about protecting driver and vehicle data and has introduced procedures to ensure the system for releasing information examines requests robustly." - standard blurb.........but it's not, is it?

These 'parking fine' scams could not exist if the Government (DVLA) did not 'sell' on, to the general public, information that should be protected by the Data Protection Act - the registered keeper details of vehicles.

This type of information should ONLY be accessable by Government officials - ie the Police, Councils ect., NOT private individuals = private companies!

Write to your local MP and insist that the DVLA be taken to book for it irrisponsible action. Do you find this valuable?    

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