Govt are now charging a £60 annual fee to have a dashcam in my van

Car_54

peter_the_piper said:

facade said:

Advocado said:

 The camera is there purely to collect evidence in the event of an accident, and it's going to cost me £60 a year.  Why?!

Because it counts as a cctv device, and falls outside the domestic exemption.

You would have to pay the fee if you store any customer data on an electronic device, such as names addresses & phone numbers on a 'phone or pc anyway.

If you don't pay, they can fine you, seems rather like TV licensing, they simply send fines to all the registered businesses that aren't paying the fee.....

Does this mean that any business building with CCTV also has to pay the £60 per year? Just curious as if so I wonder how many actually do.

Almost all businesses have to be registered with the ICO because of the data they hold, regardless of CCTV. And most will be paying a lot more than £60.

nick74

Pay it by direct debit instead and it's reduced to £55.

Advocado

AdrianC said:

Advocado said:

I've run a business for fifteen years and have never had any knowledge of this ICO charge.  When the letter arrived I immediately assumed it was a scam.

The ICO was founded in 1984 as the Data Protection Registrar, by the Data Protection Act 1984. It was strengthened by the Data Protection Act 1998, and again by GDPR in 2018.

How many other laws does your business fail to comply with?

Loads I'd imagine.

And thanks for the history of the ICO, but I too can navigate to Wikipedia.

martindow

Is the £60 fee correct?  For my business I pay £40 or £35 with DD for storing customers' data.  Are dashcams in a separate category?

Car_54

martindow said:

Is the £60 fee correct?  For my business I pay £40 or £35 with DD for storing customers' data.  Are dashcams in a separate category?

£40 is for businesses with no more than 10 staff, and charities etc. Otherwise a minimum of £60, rising to £000s.

See https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-fee/

neilmcl

martindow said:

Is the £60 fee correct?  For my business I pay £40 or £35 with DD for storing customers' data.  Are dashcams in a separate category?

It depends on the business and number of employees. Certain organisations, such as charities, pay a reduced £40 plus businesses with less than 10 employees but £60 is the standard fee.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/how-much-will-i-need-to-pay

martindow

Thanks Neil and Car.  That explains it - I'm a one man band.

lemondrops69

Advocado said:

AdrianC said:

Advocado said:

I've run a business for fifteen years and have never had any knowledge of this ICO charge.  When the letter arrived I immediately assumed it was a scam.

The ICO was founded in 1984 as the Data Protection Registrar, by the Data Protection Act 1984. It was strengthened by the Data Protection Act 1998, and again by GDPR in 2018.

How many other laws does your business fail to comply with?

Loads I'd imagine.

And thanks for the history of the ICO, but I too can navigate to Wikipedia.

You've not been here long, Wikipedia goes to AdrianC when they write their pages  

Jenni_D

lemondrops69 said:

Advocado said:

AdrianC said:

Advocado said:

I've run a business for fifteen years and have never had any knowledge of this ICO charge.  When the letter arrived I immediately assumed it was a scam.

The ICO was founded in 1984 as the Data Protection Registrar, by the Data Protection Act 1984. It was strengthened by the Data Protection Act 1998, and again by GDPR in 2018.

How many other laws does your business fail to comply with?

Loads I'd imagine.

And thanks for the history of the ICO, but I too can navigate to Wikipedia.

You've not been here long, Wikipedia goes to AdrianC when they write their pages  

Is he the Chuck Norris of this forum? 😁

lemondrops69

Jenni_D said:

lemondrops69 said:

Advocado said:

AdrianC said:

Advocado said:

I've run a business for fifteen years and have never had any knowledge of this ICO charge.  When the letter arrived I immediately assumed it was a scam.

The ICO was founded in 1984 as the Data Protection Registrar, by the Data Protection Act 1984. It was strengthened by the Data Protection Act 1998, and again by GDPR in 2018.

How many other laws does your business fail to comply with?

Loads I'd imagine.

And thanks for the history of the ICO, but I too can navigate to Wikipedia.

You've not been here long, Wikipedia goes to AdrianC when they write their pages  

Is he the Chuck Norris of this forum? 😁

Very much so, the only time AdrianC was ever wrong was when he thought he had made a mistake.