Unlawfully obtaining personal data

Castle

Handy reference perhaps:-
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2018/01/company-director-is-fined-for-inventing-road-accident-to-trace-owner-of-private-number-plate/

beamerguy

Castle wrote: »

Handy reference perhaps:-
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2018/01/company-director-is-fined-for-inventing-road-accident-to-trace-owner-of-private-number-plate/

What an idiot conman

As this one involved obtaining information from the DVLA,
it surely must follow that if a parking company loses in
court, they were wrong to take the motorist to court, and
will be subject to a data breach

We must all follow the lead of the ICO who said ...

ICO Head of Enforcement Steve Eckersley said
“Unlawfully obtaining people’s personal data is a criminal offence and the ICO will not hesitate to take action through the courts to uphold the law and protect people’s rights.”

Probably best if you win in court, you send your complaint
about the parking company to Steve Eckersley

pappa_golf

beamerguy wrote: »

What an idiot conman

As this one involved obtaining information from the DVLA,
it surely must follow that if a parking company loses in
court, they were wrong to take the motorist to court, and
will be subject to a data breach

We must all follow the lead of the ICO who said ...

ICO Head of Enforcement Steve Eckersley said
“Unlawfully obtaining people’s personal data is a criminal offence and the ICO will not hesitate to take action through the courts to uphold the law and protect people’s rights.”

Probably best if you win in court, you send your complaint
about the parking company to Steve Eckersley

not so sure about that , the wording is "reasonable cause" with regard to DVLA/KODOE

however in a case of wrong VRN , info gained thru lack of training/inferior camera system (or just pure greed), then YES , as the words negligence and reasonable cause cannot be used together

beamerguy

pappa_golf wrote: »

not so sure about that , the wording is "reasonable cause" with regard to DVLA/KODOE

I guess that guy thought he had reasonable cause ???

pappa_golf

simply fill the correct form in (company) , and give the correct info instead of trying to be smart https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/655572/request-by-a-company-for-information-about-a-vehicle-v888x2.pdf

beamerguy

pappa_golf wrote: »

simply fill the correct form in (company) , and give the correct info instead of trying to be smart https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/655572/request-by-a-company-for-information-about-a-vehicle-v888x2.pdf

And the V888 we all know about ... your point ?

pappa_golf

there are SEVERAL v888 forms , you need to use the correct one and ask the correct questions

Umkomaas

While I don’t condone a single thing that this guy did, I’m sure that many worse things are going on in PPC world every day, yet the DVLA report none of these to the ICO. It is impossible to believe that of 4.5 million tickets issued in a year, none are as bad (or worse) than this incident!

The power of corporate world - and I’m far more of capitalist than a beardy-weirdy chin scratcher!