DVLA rakes it in!

The DVLA has made a profit of over fifteen million pounds over the last five years by selling information to a host of agencies, which include debt agencies, bailiffs, law companies and finance institutions. This data contains personal information of over thirty eight million British motorists. The type of information would include details of the addresses of the motorists. There is a good chance that the DVLA could be breaking the Data Protection Act (1998) and so there is going to be some repercussion of the actions they have been taking, to tighten up the Data Protection Laws. The DVLA only turned down two percent of the requests to get personal data information. Over one hundred and fifty companies have been given this information for a charge. The people they have sold private information to also includes those with prior criminal records!