DVLA making lots of dosh.

Whatdoiknow

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/11266733/DVLA-makes-22-million-from-drivers-details.html?WT.mc_id=e_3726596&WT.tsrc=email&etype=motoring&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Mot_New_2014_12_2&utm_campaign=3726596


Apologies if this has already been posted or mentioned but reading the above it seems the DVLA are using the excuse of assisting a third party for not breaching the Data Protection Act.

As a payroll manager if a company came along to me and asked for details of one of our employees because they want to chase him for money, the second word of the answer would be "off".

bod1467

It's been discussed here at various times in the past.

Of course, this is utter BS ...

The response stated that the DVLA does not profit from the sales, and added: "The fees are set to recover the related administrative costs and this means that it is the applicant and not the taxpayer who funds this activity."

How? The £2.50 charge is for electronic access to the database; there isn't a person who even touches it (within DVLA) usually. So DVLA are profiteering from selling keeper details. Yes, it might lessen the burden on the taxpayer to some degree, but to say they don't make a profit from it is disingenuous.

Marktheshark

Amazed someone like UKIP does not publicly pledge to wipe these "fine and upstanding businessmen and their legitimate trade" that is the private parking industry from the map by banning them from access to our private data.
They banned clamping and gave them a bigger stick to hit more people with.
Millions get hit by these charlatans every year and any party saying they will stamp it out will buy them selves a huge section of the voting public flavour.