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DVLA Staff Sacked Over Pornographic Emails
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 ZDNet UK.
[June 22, 2006, 10:10]
TIBCO Customer Showcase: DVLA Drives Productivity Gains With BPM
White Papers 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...
[March 3, 2005, 23:00]
DVLA Drives Though Productivity Gains With BPM
White Papers 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.
[November 8, 2005, 23:00]
DVLA Staff Sacked Over Pornographic Emails
Talkback Porn is getting distributed at the DVLA and people are getting sacked? Anyone got any job application forms in the Swansea area?
[June 29, 2006, 10:48]
DVLA Drives Productivity Gains With BPM
White Papers 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...
[September 21, 2006, 0:00]
E-commerce Needs A New Hero
Talkback So I rushed home to use it and found it didn't exist on the DVLA site. Clearly vyeing with the DVLA Call centre for customer approach, otherwise known as death by recorded announcements. O'Brien Huh? Never heard of him, heard of Timms.
[March 1, 2005, 12:47]
Northern Ireland Loses Thousands Of Drivers' Data
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 potential faults with vehicles.
[December 13, 2007, 7:54]
Government Data Sharing May Harm Public Trust
News 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 doctor of a change of address but...
[November 9, 2007, 14:27]
Darling: Greater Accountability Key To Data Security
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 potential faults with vehicles.
[December 17, 2007, 17:23]
Road-tax Evaders Targeted With New Tech
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.
[September 12, 2003, 16:55]
No Suprise
Talkback From the NHS to HMRC to DVLA. Given the number of breaches there's been in the latter half of 2007 alone, NOA's findings are no suprise. Are there any real I.T people in government departments?
[December 21, 2007, 7:57]
Hyfinity Case Study: HPI
White Papers The client has to source and upload massive amounts of vehicle information from organisations such as the DVLA, Police National Computer (PNC), The Society of Motor Manufactures and Traders (SMMT) and numerous financial institutions.
[July 19, 2005, 0:00]
Well...
Talkback The police are allowed to access the DVLA database, for instance, and the two organisations aren't otherwise related. I don't know what the relationship is between the Beeb and the licensing authority.
[March 17, 2008, 8:23]
SAP Helps British Government Agencies To Improve Efficiency, Deliver And Develop Modern, Effective Public Services
White Papers The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) facilitates road safety and general law enforcement in the United Kingdom by maintaining registers of drivers and vehicles and by collecting vehicle excise duty (automobile tax).
[September 14, 2007, 0:00]
10,000 Volunteers To Trial ID Cards
Talkback The superstores have lots of data on loyalty card users, the government has PNC2, Tax office, intelligence services (MI5, Special Branch), DVLA and many others to use and mess up. People tend to forget that we already have many computer data bases...
[May 18, 2004, 11:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A couple of vehicles are positioned either side, and one of the dayglo jackets says "DVLA Evasion Unit". Wednesday 24/09/2004Walking into work today, I pass a large gaggle of policemen busy pulling apart a BMW by the side of the Holloway Road.
[September 26, 2003, 18:40]
Why
Talkback Personally, I do not think any kind of personal data should should be traded at all, let alone sensitive personal data, but we know it's happening all the time, by way of example DVLA and any number of commercial organisations.
[April 10, 2008, 20:02]
10,000 Volunteers To Trial ID Cards
News The trial will last from January to June 2004 and will be run by the UK Passport Service in conjunction with the DVLA and the Home Office. The government has announced the launch of a trial to pave the way for its compulsory ID card scheme.
[December 5, 2003, 14:35]
Burn: NPfIT Has 'failed So Far'
Blog The DVLA scheme is wonderful, and successes are always ignored. At last month's Government UK IT Summit, Andy Burn, head of information management and technology planning for Connecting for Health, made an astonishing statement:
[June 1, 2007, 17:13]
Politicians Go In For Some IT Bashing
Blog The latest ad for the DVLA seems an odd choice for a government currently being accused of Big Brother behaviour with the clumsily draconian ID-Card scheme. Although mistaking the Tory party for anything more than an extremely skilled spin device...
[March 19, 2007, 16:10]
