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02-11-2006, 10:07 AM
Originally Posted by Lucky Star 
Is this legal? Doesn't it contravene data protection laws? At our local Tesco they have this in the car park and it is basically CCTV camera that photograph the numberplate on arriving and departing. If you go over the allowed time they get hold of your name and address and send out a letter.
I'm not arguing in favour of parking outside the time but surely they shouldn't have access to your personal information via a numberplate????
Talk about big brother! And this is a mere supermarket! What about ID fraud?
When I rang them and told them that the last time I had been to Tesco in Swindon was five years ago, and at the time I was driving one of their fridge lorries, they as much as called me a liar, so I contacted Tesco themselves and complained.
They rang me back, and told me they had a photograph of my Daewoo, with registration plate perfectly visible. I thanked them for it, and pointed out that the registration number was actually for my Honda motorbike.
An apology was received soon after
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02-11-2006, 10:59 AM
Originally Posted by leo
It is illegal to deliberately obscure your number plate, or have it very dirty, or remove it, mess around with the fonts, or drive with some of it broken off.
BUT it is not illegal to move your number plate to the extreme right (or left) of your front or rear bumper ... AND it is not illegal to put a six or seven letter phrase where the number plate would normally be ...
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02-11-2006, 05:27 PM
Leo, go girl - you are a 
.Anyone see the BBC News this morning, all concerned with our 'Surveillance Society' and relating it to ID fraud!!! I mean using CCTV for car parking isn't the same as stopping terrorism or crime. Not that it'll achieve owt but I've written to my MP and Tesco.
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02-11-2006, 05:29 PM
Originally Posted by Gaz webber
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They rang me back, and told me they had a photograph of my Daewoo, with registration plate perfectly visible. I thanked them for it, and pointed out that the registration number was actually for my Honda motorbike.
An apology was received soon after
Daewoo car = Honda bike
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02-11-2006, 05:32 PM
Originally Posted by Lucky Star
I mean using CCTV for car parking isn't the same as stopping terrorism or crime.
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02-11-2006, 05:48 PM
Originally Posted by GSDLover
But damn, terrorism has been the best umberella possible for Tony to exercise his megalomanic desires... If any party promised me to undo just 10% of all the changes he's made to personal privacy, civil liberties, and related fields, they'd get my vote. But as I said yesterday, I don't think we'll ever be seeing them again now. Gone.
Tony Blair
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02-11-2006, 06:29 PM
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/...a_source=&ct=5
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02-11-2006, 06:41 PM
Originally Posted by royv
There was this story in the Sunday papers about a year ago:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/...a_source=&ct=5
And the related links at the bottom, make for even darker reading!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/17/dvla_review/
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03-11-2006, 02:41 PM
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03-11-2006, 05:52 PM
Now for my next whinge ... inheritance tax!
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