Europe

8484 readers

1 users here now

News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe 🇪🇺

(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, 🇩🇪 ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures

Rules

(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)

Be nice to each other (e.g. No direct insults against each other);
No racism, antisemitism, dehumanisation of minorities or glorification of National Socialism allowed;
No posts linking to mis-information funded by foreign states or billionaires.

Also check out !yurop@lemm.ee

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

poVoq@slrpnk.net

Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens ‘wrongly fined for driving in London Ulez’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/europe@feddit.de

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] kralk@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Fuuuucking hell what a terrible article. Here's the pertinent paragraph:

Campaigners accuse Euro Parking of circumventing data protection rules by using EU-based agents to request driver data without disclosing that it is for UK enforcement.

TFL contracts Euro Parking to send fines to people. Euro Parking is based in the EU, and uses that fact to obtain information about European drivers, which TFL ultimately should not have access to.

Here's the thing, it is the data CONTROLLER'S job to control data. You can make all the requests you want and it's up to the party that holds the data to make sure that request is legitimate. The breach is on their side.

I guess there is an argument that this information has been obtained under false pretenses. If that's true, it's still got nothing to do with TFL. I guarantee there's a contract term about complying with all relevant laws.