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  • PCN's and DVLA

    Hi

    The PCN I received for Fistral Beach was addressed to my old address (I moved in July) - however, I had registered my new address with DVLA.

    I presume my car is still registered to my old address as the PCN showed this not my new one.

    My question, however is this: How did the PCN company get my home address? If this is DVLA - are they allowed to give out personal data under the DPA? I would have thought not as the PCN is a private company.
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    Re: PCN's and DVLA

    DVLA can and will share your details for specific reasons including parking companies. They receive a remuneration for doing so.

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      Re: PCN's and DVLA

      They say that they can release personal data if a private company shows just cause for it - like a parking fine that isn't paid. It doesn't however say it gives personal data to a company that requests the date BEFORE it sends the PCN.

      This is also a breach of data on the DVLA's part. Why do they get away with selling data when others rightly can't? Hmmm time to write to MP I think.

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        Re: PCN's and DVLA

        The parking companies show that there is an outstanding charge but they don't know the driver so are allowed to find out the keeper so that they have an address to send the keeper liability notice to.

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          Re: PCN's and DVLA

          Originally posted by ostell View Post
          The parking companies show that there is an outstanding charge but they don't know the driver so are allowed to find out the keeper so that they have an address to send the keeper liability notice to.
          So wrong and DVLA should not be allowed to give out personal data to a private company - especially for cash.

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            Re: PCN's and DVLA

            Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 Regulation 27(1)(e) :“The Secretary of State may make any particulars contained in the registeravailable for use - by any person who can show to the satisfaction of theSecretary of State that he has reasonable cause for wanting the particularsto be made available to him”

            http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2...lation/27/made

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              Re: PCN's and DVLA
              Originally Posted by ostell
              The parking companies show that there is an outstanding charge but they don't know the driver so are allowed to find out the keeper so that they have an address to send the keeper liability notice to.



              So wrong and DVLA should not be allowed to give out personal data to a private company - especially for cash.


              http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2...lation/27/made[/QUOTE]

              Apparently the DVLA are acting within the law. If people disagree with the law the it's MPs who you need to complain to. It is MPs who make the law.

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                Re: PCN's and DVLA

                Originally posted by Spirit200 View Post

                Re: PCN's and DVLA
                Originally Posted by ostell
                The parking companies show that there is an outstanding charge but they don't know the driver so are allowed to find out the keeper so that they have an address to send the keeper liability notice to.



                So wrong and DVLA should not be allowed to give out personal data to a private company - especially for cash.



                http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2...lation/27/made
                Apparently the DVLA are acting within the law. If people disagree with the law the it's MPs who you need to complain to. It is MPs who make the law.

                [/QUOTE]

                Not technically true in this case. MP's have been complaining about DVLA making millions out of selling motorist's personal data to private car parking companies charging up to £100 on the pretext that DVLA think this is just cause to sell personal data (a breach of data protection in it's most simplest form). DVLA hide behind the clause they have that it's just cause if the motorist hasn't paid a car parking notice on private land, but the motorist often doesn't know of this fine until it's sent to the keeper by post.

                Both the practice of selling our data and private companies acting in this way, needs to be stopped and yes, the MP's need to clamp down on both DVLA and these scammers, as both are acting in an unscrupulous way.

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