Change the law to prevent the DVLA from selling our personal information

Randomface74 · 5 Sep 2020 at 11:02

Vanquish-Storm said:
Have you got a link to the petition email rather than just the sign it page?

Sadly no. When you make a new petition you have to get 5 people to sign it, during this period signatures are capped at 21, I currently have 3. They send you an email to forward to people, which is the exact text I posted, and that is the exact text of the petition. Once it has 5 signatures it goes into a queue to get approved, which can take a while, then the petition would be live as normal at: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550233 but as you can see, even that doesn't include the petition text while the petition is in this early stage. I completely agree with you that this process doesn't help you trust what you're signing, I have send this feedback to the Petitions Committee before and I have just sent it again.

agw_01 · 5 Sep 2020 at 11:05

snips86x said:
Of course I had proof, or the DVLA wouldn't have given me the owners information.

Video footage?

snips86x · 5 Sep 2020 at 11:07

agw_01 said:
Video footage?

10 years ago? No.
The photographic evidence was more than enough.
If i could post the pic you would know exactly what I mean. Like I said, there was no way it wasn't him.

Vanquish-Storm · 5 Sep 2020 at 11:48

billysielu said:
Sadly no. When you make a new petition you have to get 5 people to sign it, during this period signatures are capped at 21, I currently have 3. They send you an email to forward to people, which is the exact text I posted, and that is the exact text of the petition. Once it has 5 signatures it goes into a queue to get approved, which can take a while, then the petition would be live as normal at: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550233 but as you can see, even that doesn't include the petition text while the petition is in this early stage. I completely agree with you that this process doesn't help you trust what you're signing, I have send this feedback to the Petitions Committee before and I have just sent it again.

Ah gotcha. It does email you the blurb before you confirm your sign-up on email just got that through.

Gaygle · 5 Sep 2020 at 12:10

snips86x said:
10 years ago? No.
The photographic evidence was more than enough.
If i could post the pic you would know exactly what I mean. Like I said, there was no way it wasn't him.

That's not proof, that's good circumstantial evidence. There is completely a way that it wasn't him. What happens if he drove off without hitting you car only for another car of the same colour to come and attempt to get into the space and mess it all up and cause damage to your car in the process? Can you offer evidence to show that this didn't happen? Don't get me wrong, it's very unlikely, but it is still possible. Don't mix up "proof" with "likely".

And when the DVLA deal with thousands of these sort of requests a day, it is inevitable that innocent people will get their details handed out to god knows who. Not to mention, if you did have malicious intent against someone you had a problem with, it wouldn't be difficult to falsely replicate the same situation in which you successfully got the details, just to find out where the person lived.

Randomface74 · 5 Sep 2020 at 16:51

just need 1 more signature to get into the review stage

Nasher · 5 Sep 2020 at 17:06

Gaygle said:
That's not proof, that's good circumstantial evidence. There is completely a way that it wasn't him. What happens if he drove off without hitting you car only for another car of the same colour to come and attempt to get into the space and mess it all up and cause damage to your car in the process? Can you offer evidence to show that this didn't happen? Don't get me wrong, it's very unlikely, but it is still possible. Don't mix up "proof" with "likely".

And when the DVLA deal with thousands of these sort of requests a day, it is inevitable that innocent people will get their details handed out to god knows who. Not to mention, if you did have malicious intent against someone you had a problem with, it wouldn't be difficult to falsely replicate the same situation in which you successfully got the details, just to find out where the person lived.

He got lucky and they guy paid up. But he could have denied it and got away with it.

Randomface74 · 2 Oct 2020 at 21:18

This petition is live now at: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550233

Doobedoo · 2 Oct 2020 at 21:28

Signed