Reply to: Used car ad displays the personal information of previous keepers (via V5)

[Old Greg]

And completely non existent when it comes to anything else?

Along with all other categories of intelligence.

[northernladuk]

Fair enough.. my humour intelligence isn't quite at the level of tuning I would like when it comes to text....

And completely non existent when it comes to anything else?

[password]

Erm... which part of "All hope abandon ye who enter here. Seriously." do you have difficulty with. (Notwithstanding that certain threads will be protected from trolling).

Fair enough.. my humour intelligence isn't quite at the level of tuning I would like when it comes to text....

[Old Greg]

That's a pretty low blow don't you think?

But have you reported the ad?

[NotAllThere]

That's a pretty low blow don't you think?

Erm... which part of "All hope abandon ye who enter here. Seriously." do you have difficulty with. (Notwithstanding that certain threads will be protected from trolling).

[password]

If you're offended at that, it's no wonder you're depressed......

HINT: If you take offence easily DON'T post in general

That's a pretty low blow don't you think?

[Zigenare]

Spot on.. did you google the abstract of text?

What do people think of this? Am I the only person who is absolutely outraged..?

Who's got the keys for the bus?

[Lance]

Old Greg, I take offence to your describing my outrage as not genuine, fake or false. It is absolutely genuine.

If you're offended at that, it's no wonder you're depressed......

HINT: If you take offence easily DON'T post in general

[Lance]

So if you think it’s illegal, did YOU do anything about it more constructive than writing a rant on the internet?

and pointing it out to throusands of people who aren't even interested in buying the car

[Lance]

What criminal law do you believe has been borderline broken?

Not only starting a sentence with "so", but giving it a whole paragraph to itself.

[original PM]

Well my view would be that that persons information was most definitely not given to the DVLA to allow some used car spiv sales person to use it as a selling point.

So straight away there is an issue of data not being used in line with the reason it was collected.

[Old Greg]

So if you think it’s illegal, did YOU do anything about it more constructive than writing a rant on the innernet?

FTFY

[Old Greg]

Old Greg, I take offence to your describing my outrage as not genuine, fake or false. It is absolutely genuine.

As somebody who may have sold a car recently I would be horrified to think some dealer I never transacted with was bandying around my personal information online for profit.

You absolutely must not have a firm understanding of the importance and sensitivity of such personal data. Hint: General Data Protection Regulation. It wasn't a huge multi industry talking point and grave concern for no reason, but because it is a serious topic.

So yes it is an official document, as is your tax return among many other types of documents. Just because you may share it with your accountant etc doesn't mean it is completely fine for him to share it online.



Ah ok, I am not surprised. Was thinking about this on the way home and if they didn't act they would be in gross violation... I wonder what the DVLA turnover is.. the fines would be hectic. Actually.. this is interesting.

• According to [1], revenue for 2016/17 was £6 billion.
• See the fines in [2].
• If they didn't fix the process they would potentially be in gross violation and subject to the 4% fine. Even at the 2% rate they would have to pay £245,120,000

[1] DVLA's annual report and accounts 2016 to 2017 - GOV.UK
[2] Key Changes with the General Data Protection Regulation – EUGDPR [not the best reference]

So given your faux offence at my scorn for your faux outrage, did you report the ad?

And seeing as you take GDPR so seriously, this is not sensitive data.

[WTFH]

So if you think it’s illegal, did YOU do anything about it more constructive than writing a rant on the internet?

[NotAllThere]

Old Greg, I take offence to your describing my outrage as not genuine, fake or false. It is absolutely genuine.

Seems unlikely. Unless you're one of the two former keepers, it doesn't affect you personally. You may be (pretending to be) outraged on behalf of two people who do not give a toss. Vicarious outrage is no outrage at all.