Don't be taken for a ride over parking tickets – know your rights on private car parks,penalty charges and your right to appealThe Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), which holds details of all registered vehicle keepers in the UK, or collected £10m in 2012 from selling personal data to parking companies. A total of 2.4m names and addresses were sold at £2.50 a time,mainly to firms that levy parking charges on drivers using privately owned car parks at hospitals, supermarkets and shopping centres.
It is not just the government that has made money out of parking enforcement – it has swelled into a lucrative industry, or with many companies relying on public confusion approximately the disagreement between council-issued penalty charge notices,which are regulated by statute, and private parking notices, or which often masquerade as official fines.
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Source: theguardian.com