Does DVLA Have Any Regard For Your Personal Information

Parking companies buy the details of more than 19,000 vehicles each day from the DVLA to help them recoup unpaid fines, it has been revealed.

If you have an unpaid car park fine, the DVLA may have sold your details to a private company, new research has shown.

Between the months of April and June, the DVLA is alleged to have sold 1.74 million vehicle keeper records.

This is an increase over the same period last year.

The information is sold by the DVLA for some £2.50 a vehicle, generating around £1.5million in revenue a month.

MPs warned last night that "bully boy" private car firms use this information to subsequently hound innocent motorists.

Tory MP Sir Greg Knight has tabled a Bill in the Commons to crackdown on the self-regulated parking industry.

He said: ”These figures are concerning.

"It is highly unlikely there has been a massive increase in bad parking.

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DVLA sells YOUR details to CAR PARK companies chasing unpaid fines, new report reveals

PRIVATE parking companies buy the details of more than 19,000 vehicles each day from the DVLA to help them recoup unpaid fines, it has been revealed.

By LUKE JOHN SMITH
PUBLISHED: 11:17, Tue, Jul 25, 2017 | UPDATED: 11:29, Tue, Jul 25, 2017






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Parking companies are buying car details from DVLA to chase parking fines
If you have an unpaid car park fine, the DVLA may have sold your details to a private company, new research has shown.

Between the months of April and June, the DVLA is alleged to have sold 1.74 million vehicle keeper records.

This is an increase over the same period last year.

The information is sold by the DVLA for some £2.50 a vehicle, generating around £1.5million in revenue a month.

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MPs warned last night that "bully boy" private car firms use this information to subsequently hound innocent motorists.

Tory MP Sir Greg Knight has tabled a Bill in the Commons to crackdown on the self-regulated parking industry.

He said: ”These figures are concerning.

"It is highly unlikely there has been a massive increase in bad parking.

Bad parking pictures: Justice is served to these inconsiderate drivers
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Bad parking pictures: Justice is served to these inconsiderate drivers.




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This driver got a shock he returned to his car REDDIT
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This driver got a shock he returned to his car
This driver got a shock he returned to his car
Justice was served after one particular motorist decided to park across two bays in a supermarket
A man returned to his car in a busy carpark to find it blocked in and forced his way out
An angry driver decided to use passive aggression in a creative way when faced with a badly parked vehicle in a car park
This Smart car driver will learn his lesson
This driver will think again next time he decided to park in a restricted zone
It's always hard to choose a space when the carpark is empty, but these drives decided to teach an inconsiderate driver a lesson
“Instead bully-boy parking firms are hounding innocent motorists and milking them for money. We need to put rogue firms out of business.

Bully-boy parking firms are hounding innocent motorists and milking them for money
Tory MP Sir Greg Knight
“There are many private parking companies who are playing fair.

“But others are clearly making a killing out of pursuing and persecuting motorists who have done nothing wrong.’

Parking firms are using the information obtained to collect fines of up to £100 from drivers.

ParkingEye, which is owned by outsourcing firm Capita, obtained 570,000 vehicle records in the three-month period, followed by Smart Parking with 125,000 and Euro Car Parks who collected 118,000.

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The data suggests that fine is issued every four and a half seconds.

RAC Foundation has suggested that the industry is out of control and warned that the details of around seven million vehicles could be sold during the financial year.

Some drivers have complained that they are being targeted at hospitals or for being just a few minutes late or not being unable to buy a ticket.

Effective today, from July 26, 2017, anyone can change their car number plate with a sports-looking one in Ras Al Khaimah.

The smaller registration number in black and white colours would cost only Dh500 as per the new scheme launched by the Ras Al Khaimah Police and general resources authority.

Col Adel Ali Al Ghais, acting director of the licensure department of RAK police, said the sports number plates are available for all vehicles.

"Applicants only need to follow the set procedures and pay the due fees, and the regular number plates will be replaced with sports-looking ones immediately."

"However, only the front number plate will be changed, and that will cost Dh500," Captain Thaer of the RAK police told Khaleej Times.

The move is in respond to the so many requests of the public to replace their long traditional number places with smaller and sports-looking ones, Col Al Ghais said.

"They want to add a touch of beauty and luxury to their vehicles and share the feeling of owning an exotic cars. Earlier, only sports cars were eligible for having sports number plates fixed."

Col Al Ghais said the RAK police and general resources authority spare no effort to meet the public needs, and provide the best and most convenient services to them. "All our services are up to the latest international standards."

Humid Al Marzouqi, an Emirati national, said he has asked the concerned licensure department several times to change his long number plates and replace them with smaller ones, but he was denied the service.

"I am so happy that they have reconsidered my request and others' as well," he said. "The sports registration numbers will make my Lexus car look more attractive on the road."

Mohammed Ibrahim, an Emirati national, said he was looking for more changes in the new number plates. "I wanted to see more colours in the new sports plates as is the case in other emirates."

Abdullah Al Saleh, an Emirati national, asked why only the front number plate can be changed. "I wished both number plates will be smaller, cheaper, and with more colours."