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RSS dvlaPlanning begins for chipped driving licences
News The DVLA has started preparing for the possible production of driving licences with microchips on them. At the same time, the DVLA is upgrading its driving licence card production facility to address the... [13 Mar 2006]
Facial recognition to be used on driving licences
News The Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is to trial facial recognition technology to weed out duplicate, and potentially fraudulent, photograph driving licence records from its database. The DVLA... [26 Oct 2004]
£200m road tax cheats to face number plate readers
News The DVLA already uses some automatic number plate reading equipment where cameras monitor passing traffic and compare the registrations against database of vehicles that haven't renewed or paid for road tax. [12 Sep 2003]
Police road camera network targets criminals
News The cameras use automatic number plate recognition technology (ANPR) to check a vehicle’s identity against the Police National Computer, records at the DVLA and local intelligence systems. The trial of the technology... [23 Mar 2005]
Soham inquiry to make crime-record data sharing easier
News John Suffolk, director general of criminal justice IT, speaking today at the Government UK IT Summit in London revealed that an agreement has already been made to use the DVLA. We are adding in authorities like the... [10 May 2004]
Police forces team up for number plate scanning
News The ANPR technology cross-references various databases including the Police National Computer, local intelligence systems and DVLA systems and alerts traffic police to what are classed as "vehicles of interest" that need... [27 Oct 2005]
Truckers' smartcards off to a slow start
News The DVLA told silicon.com: "It will be possible to check more records with more information as well as making it harder to breach the drivers' hours rules. Since July 2005 the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency... [30 Mar 2006]
Data sharing 'could sap public confidence'
News He added: "If you don't tell the DVLA of a change of address, after a month you're liable to a fine of £1,000 and it will be the same under the National Identity Register. If someone had, for example, notified their... [12 Nov 2007]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News Privacy watchdog clamps down on DVLA data sharing Last year, the DVLA was criticised for making £6.3m selling drivers' details to private sector companies - slapped wrists all round. The year was... [19 Dec 2007]
Data breach hits thousands of motorists
News The data, which was contained on two CDs, was being sent from the DVA in Coleraine to the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) in Swansea in response to vehicle manufacturers needing to contact owners about... [12 Dec 2007]
Delayed national MOT database finally completed
News The system can also be accessed by Vosa staff and there is a direct feed to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) database. The MOT computerisation project is the final part of the electronic vehicle licensing... [07 Apr 2006]
Stories of the Month - September 2007
News Privacy watchdog clamps down on DVLA data sharing In other data security news, the Information Commissioner's Office issuing guidance on how the personal data of motorists can be used by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing... [28 Sep 2007]
Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars
Photo The vehicle is then registered for a test by entering the registration mark and chassis number to match the DVLA record, which will provide the tester with all the information relevant for the vehicle being tested. [07 Apr 2006]
Gov't needs greater accountability to "ensure security", says Darling
News The data, which was contained on two CDs, was being sent from the DVA in Coleraine to the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) in Swansea in response to vehicle manufacturers needing to contact owners about... [18 Dec 2007]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment We run the whole of the DVLA's infrastructure and their transformation activities. One of our major transformation programmes is with the DVLA. Julian David, IBM's vice president public sector business,... [05 Dec 2007]
