Dec 082012
 

The UK’s Driver Vehicle and Licensing Agency, responsible for maintaining the national database of vehicles and driver licensing, has banned a number of local councils from accessing the database because of either procedural or substantive misuses of the data. “Big Brother Watch director Nick Pickles said officials have been caught accessing data on behalf of journalists or other outside parties in the past, sometimes for cash, although there is no indication from the data released that this has been happening here.”

 Posted by at 5:57 am on December 8, 2012