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7,000 drivers' names sold to criminals

Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:27 pm
by Samray
The Mail on Sunday can also disclose the DVLA has sold 4.85 million drivers’ names and addresses to parking enforcement firms in the past six years at £2.50 a time – without checking if the companies’ use for the private information was legitimate.

This includes details of nearly one million drivers being passed to 12 firms that were subsequently suspended from accessing the register due to wrongdoing or bankruptcy.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1qjgzo9RQ

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:46 pm
by fatboy
DVLA have been doing this for years,another source of revenue.
pretty much pisses all over the Data Protection Act
then again Im sure there is a subclause that allows DVLA to act with in,with with out the governance laws of this land therefore exempting them from having to answer to those they serve US
Yes I do despise SA 99

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:31 pm
by BikerGran
Nearly everyone who holds your data passwes it on to someone! Life's too short to worry about it or let it piss you off.