DVLA is still selling your
personal data, despite being one of the linchpin databases for the new ID card
scheme.
The Daily
Mail writes:
The DVLA has sold the names
and addresses of nearly 8,000 drivers to clamping and car park companies in
just six weeks - despite a Government pledge to crack down on the trade.
Between November and
mid-December, 14 firms were given the identities of 7,952 car owners.
The figure makes a mockery
of a promise by Ministers last summer to restrict the practice after this
newspaper exposed how operators with criminal convictions used the vehicle
licensing agency database to track down and fine drivers who had overstayed
time limits in store car parks. …
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.
Some more examples of
abuses of our personal data can be found in an older article.
