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Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens ‘wrongly fined for driving in London Ulez’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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The issue is that if a numberplate isn't registered in the UK then the system has no idea if it's a compliant vehicle or not. The choices here are either hire a bunch of people to go through the videos, identify the car make, age, and petrol type, then decide from that whether they are compliant OR they let the automated system send the letter and if your car is compliant then you tell them. You can avoid the whole shebang if you just register your car before you travel.
The issue is that the UK government (or city of London) outsourced law enforcement to a shady company from the US which doesn't care about data protection and obtained EU citizen information through illegal channels.
This is much more serious than issuing bogus fines to foreign blokes.
It's not law enforcement, it's a civil issue, it's quite normal for companies to take civil issues, they obtained information on people who broke rules by requesting it, and recieving it, that's not illegal on their behalf.
If they are bribing People to access a system they have no legal right to access, then that's 100% illegal
Sure, like Cambridge analytical...
You understand that's different right? If you've broken the rules then they've got a right to send you a fine.
Wholesale selling of personal information is not what's happening here.
There's no country in the world where you can skip tolls, travel tickets, entrance fees, and face no consequences.
No problem with fining people who don't follow local rules, especially traffic ones.
The issue is that a private company is doing the job without proper oversight, at the expense of EU citizens' rights. What's next? Storing biometrical data of EU air travelers in data centers open to US spy agencies?
But since Brexit everyone has well understood that playing by the rules and respecting their partners isn't on UK's agenda anymore.
You seem very confused, private companies are always fining you. Parking companies are private companies, many public transport companies are private companies. The oversight is provided by the court. This has been the case before Brexit was even a consideration.