OK who wrote this?

[vetran]

Parking ticket firm 'exposed private info' - ICO making enquiries ? The Register

apparently despite 'breaking the law' the companies exposing the photos aren't willing to stop persecuting the poor parking extortion firm - sometimes there is justice!

[DimPrawn]

Since when is a number plate private info?

FFS, people need to get over themselves.

[vetran]

number plates may not be private, the electronic tracking of people's movement is.

[DimPrawn]

number plates may not be private, the electronic tracking of people's movement is.

Yeah, me hooman rights.

[Advocate]

Re: OK who wrote this?

Since when is a number plate private info?

FFS, people need to get over themselves.

The UK DPA is quite contextual, in some circumstances a number plate could be aggregated with additional information and become personal information under the act.

I'm not sure if that's the case in this example; just pointing out that it's not always clear cut!

Of course there's a difference between the legal responsibility of the company and the developers intentions, when writing a shoddy web application!

(I.e whilst they might not be breaking the law, I doubt they meant it to be easy to grab all the photos)

OWASP top 10 anyone?

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