The DVLA is selling drivers’ names and addresses to clamping companies that break industry rules by charging drivers more than £500 for minor parking breaches, an investigation by The Times has established.
The agency made more than £4 million last year by selling the details of 1.6 million drivers. It sold 900 names and addresses to Newline Securities and Parking Control Management, both of which have repeatedly double-charged drivers for parking breaches and inflated bills by adding spurious charges.
Newline left a family stranded overnight after seizing a car and refusing to allow the owner to retrieve his house keys. PCM charged an elderly couple £375 after they parked for 30 minutes outside a boarded-up office.
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Showing posts with label Data Protection Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Data Protection Act. Show all posts
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Saturday, April 04, 2009
UK Border Agency to Exchange Fingerprint Data With U.S
The UK Border Agency plans to start exchanging fingerprint data with the US, Canada and Australia in the near future
The organisation, which gained full executive agency status on 1 April 2009, says in a business plan issued on the same day that that it plans to work with the USA, Canada and Australia to "introduce a system of appropriate data protection arrangements for fingerprint checks and data sharing". This is intended to help identify and bar foreign criminals from entering the country, and is planned for "early 2009".
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The organisation, which gained full executive agency status on 1 April 2009, says in a business plan issued on the same day that that it plans to work with the USA, Canada and Australia to "introduce a system of appropriate data protection arrangements for fingerprint checks and data sharing". This is intended to help identify and bar foreign criminals from entering the country, and is planned for "early 2009".
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Friday, March 06, 2009
Companies ‘Paid for Secret Database on Troublemakers’
More than 40 companies, including some of Britain’s biggest construction firms, are facing legal action over claims that they paid a private detective to vet prospective employees.
Balfour Beatty and Sir Robert McAlpine are among companies accused of paying to access a database of construction workers that listed details of trade union activities and work habits.
Ian Kerr, of Droitwich, Worcestershire, charged firms £3,000 a year to consult his database of 3,213 workers, whose names were accompanied by notes such as “poor timekeeper, will cause trouble, strong [trade union]”.
He will be prosecuted under the Data Protection Act, which prohibits holding personal information on individuals without their knowledge or consent.
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Balfour Beatty and Sir Robert McAlpine are among companies accused of paying to access a database of construction workers that listed details of trade union activities and work habits.
Ian Kerr, of Droitwich, Worcestershire, charged firms £3,000 a year to consult his database of 3,213 workers, whose names were accompanied by notes such as “poor timekeeper, will cause trouble, strong [trade union]”.
He will be prosecuted under the Data Protection Act, which prohibits holding personal information on individuals without their knowledge or consent.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
A CONCEALED ASSAULT ON PRIVACY
NO2ID has been warning since at least 2006/7 about the stated intentions of government "to overcome current barriers to information sharing within the public sector". Now the Ministry of Justice has launched an extraordinary coup. It wants to convert the Data Protection Act into its exact opposite, into a means for any government department to obtain and use any information however it likes.
Hidden in the new Coroners and Justice Bill is one clause (cl.152) amending the Data Protection Act. It would allow ministers to make 'Information Sharing Orders', that can alter any Act of Parliament and cancel all rules of confidentiality in order to use information obtained for one purpose to be used for another.
This single clause is as grave a threat to privacy as the entire ID Scheme. Combine it with the index to your life formed by the planned National Identity Register and everything recorded about you anywhere could be accessible to any official body.
That is what we meant by "the database state". It is now a threat not a theory.
If you have any concerns about what the government is doing with your personal information — polls show that most people already do — then please tell your friends, family and colleagues about this.
To find out more, and what you can do to stop it, CLICK HERE.
Hidden in the new Coroners and Justice Bill is one clause (cl.152) amending the Data Protection Act. It would allow ministers to make 'Information Sharing Orders', that can alter any Act of Parliament and cancel all rules of confidentiality in order to use information obtained for one purpose to be used for another.
This single clause is as grave a threat to privacy as the entire ID Scheme. Combine it with the index to your life formed by the planned National Identity Register and everything recorded about you anywhere could be accessible to any official body.
That is what we meant by "the database state". It is now a threat not a theory.
If you have any concerns about what the government is doing with your personal information — polls show that most people already do — then please tell your friends, family and colleagues about this.
To find out more, and what you can do to stop it, CLICK HERE.
Sunday, February 01, 2009
'Common Purpose' Reported Over Data Protection Issues
Leadership training organisation Common Purpose named individual making FOI requests about its work to public authorities
Leadership training charity Common Purpose has been reported to the Information Commissioner's Office for alleged breaches of data protection law.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency, which made the complaint, has also apologised to a person whose name it inadvertently passed on to Common Purpose after he made a request under the Freedom of Information Act about its dealings with the charity.
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Nice to see this ' Charity' exposed . Full of NLP mind control techniques and a subversive EU fifth column
Leadership training charity Common Purpose has been reported to the Information Commissioner's Office for alleged breaches of data protection law.
The Northwest Regional Development Agency, which made the complaint, has also apologised to a person whose name it inadvertently passed on to Common Purpose after he made a request under the Freedom of Information Act about its dealings with the charity.
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Nice to see this ' Charity' exposed . Full of NLP mind control techniques and a subversive EU fifth column
Monday, January 26, 2009
Threat to Privacy Under Data Law, Campaigners Warn
Data held by the police, the NHS, schools, the Inland Revenue, local councils and the DVLA could all end up in private hands, according to Privacy International.
At the same time, information gathered by companies including hotel registrations, bank details and telecommunications data could be transferred to the Government as part of the provisions of the Coroner's and Justice Bill, it is claimed.
Privacy International also warns that there will be no protection from such mass transfers of data, which would only require ministerial approval under the new law.
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At the same time, information gathered by companies including hotel registrations, bank details and telecommunications data could be transferred to the Government as part of the provisions of the Coroner's and Justice Bill, it is claimed.
Privacy International also warns that there will be no protection from such mass transfers of data, which would only require ministerial approval under the new law.
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