DVLA FLOG YOUR DETAILS TO ANYONE FOR £2.50

Although it's been around the blogosphere for a few weeks, this scandal concerning DVLA has now entered mainstream media.

The DVLA regularly flog our details to any Tom, Dick or Harry saying they're a proper company for £2.50 a shot, making millions for themselves and exposing us all to the possibility of fraud and intimidation. So much for the government's real concern over identity security, a major plank in their drive for ID cards and the National Database.

Note the following unintentional irony in the following, extracted from a document by IBM. who are the government's partner in developing and producing driving licence cards:

The new driving licence is probably the most secure form of non-chip card in the world. It meets the relevant EU Directorate standards and its security has been checked and verified by the UK government National Document Fraud Unit (NDFU). The future addition of a chip would not only improve security further but would potentially provide a range of significant remote authentication benefits – increasing privacy assurance for personal data for the public during transactions with DVLA. In collaboration with emerging government gateway facilities, this should be achievable quickly and at marginal cost.

Privacy assurance is obviously not a concern, otherwise they wouldn't be flogging our details to make a quick and easy buck.

The DVLA should not be providing this data to anyone except the Police and possibly insurance companies.

Somewhere in all this there may possibly be an EU directive lurking, since all driving licence legislation is now controlled and set by the EU (of course).