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News New rules have been introduced to clamp down on the misuse of personal information resulting from the sale of motorist details from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) vehicle database to private sector companies.
[25 Jul 2006]
whitepaper While most of the 91 million forms and 50 million transactions processed each year by the DVLA can be handled quickly, exceptions do occur when something falls outside the normal process framework. DLVA is an executive agency of the U.K.
[08 Nov 2005]
whitepaper The DVLA manages and maintains records on over 70 million vehicles and drivers. While most of the 91 million forms and 50 million transactions processed each year by DVLA can be handled quickly, exceptions do occur when something falls outside the...
[21 Sep 2006]
News The DVLA is to clamp down on fraudulent vehicle registration applications and improve the accuracy of its databases by using a private-sector credit reference agency to check false name and address details are not being submitted.
[05 Mar 2004]
whitepaper This webcast explains how TIBCO's software provided DVLA with a sustainable and reliable platform for case management. It talks about how DVLA has significantly improved customer service. It helps you understand how the BPM solution enabled a...
[03 Mar 2005]
News The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has extended its relationship with networking company Avaya with the purchase of £250,000 of priority call routing software. The implementation is part of an ongoing drive by the DVLA to improve...
[06 Nov 2007]
News The quality of information in the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) databases is so poor that police taking part in a high-tech number plate scanning trial were forced to resort to manual visual checks on suspect vehicles.
[03 Nov 2004]
News The UK's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is looking to boost profits by selling data products and reports to the private sector, based on information held in its databases. The data will be sold in DVLA-branded reports but will be...
[24 Aug 2005]
News The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has revealed that it made more than £6m last year selling access to the names and addresses of motorists to private sector companies such as wheel clamper, bailiffs and debt collection agencies.
[14 Jun 2006]
News The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has dismissed 14 members of staff at the licensing centre in Swansea for distributing pornographic email attachments to people outside the centre. The DVLA confirmed the dismissals to silicon.com...
[22 Jun 2006]
News Technical gremlins have caused the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) new online vehicle licensing service to crash under the high volume of users trying to renew their tax discs. The DVLA site has been struggling to cope with the number...
[22 Feb 2005]
News Data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published guidelines outlining how motorists' personal data can be used by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). The ICO guide attempts to explain the circumstances...
[04 Sep 2007]
News An ongoing investigation into the distribution of pornographic content in emails at the DVLA has led to a further 65 staff facing disciplinary action. The investigation centres on the DVLA's Swansea base, where the 65 staff have been charged with...
[31 Oct 2006]
News The government is considering restricting the number of private sector companies and individuals that are allowed access to motorists' details from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) vehicle database.
[16 Jun 2006]
News The Department for Transport and its agencies, including the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), have saved £33m using online and electronic services in the last year. The online services for the DVLA, Driving Standards Agency (DSA) and the...
[16 Jan 2008]
News The vans will be equipped with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras that will scan car number plates and check them against the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) database of untaxed vehicles.
[20 Jun 2006]
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 increasing threat to the driving licence...
[13 Mar 2006]
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]
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 will trial automated facial recognition...
[26 Oct 2004]
News The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) online tax disc service has been extended nationally but will not be fully available until the end of March because of delays to the computerised MOT database project.
[10 Jan 2006]
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