The UK ladies and gentlemen, scuttling their ship, one aweful policy after the other

  • Devi@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Also, they fined a ton of people in compliant vehicles, either totally randomly or because they didn’t follow some rule that they made up just for EU vehicles.

    The issue is that if a numberplate isn’t registered in the UK then the system has no idea if it’s a compliant vehicle or not. The choices here are either hire a bunch of people to go through the videos, identify the car make, age, and petrol type, then decide from that whether they are compliant OR they let the automated system send the letter and if your car is compliant then you tell them. You can avoid the whole shebang if you just register your car before you travel.

    • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      9 months ago

      The issue is that the UK government (or city of London) outsourced law enforcement to a shady company from the US which doesn’t care about data protection and obtained EU citizen information through illegal channels.

      This is much more serious than issuing bogus fines to foreign blokes.

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        9 months ago

        It’s not law enforcement, it’s a civil issue, it’s quite normal for companies to take civil issues, they obtained information on people who broke rules by requesting it, and recieving it, that’s not illegal on their behalf.

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            9 months ago

            You understand that’s different right? If you’ve broken the rules then they’ve got a right to send you a fine.

            Wholesale selling of personal information is not what’s happening here.

            There’s no country in the world where you can skip tolls, travel tickets, entrance fees, and face no consequences.

            • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksOP
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              9 months ago

              No problem with fining people who don’t follow local rules, especially traffic ones.

              The issue is that a private company is doing the job without proper oversight, at the expense of EU citizens’ rights. What’s next? Storing biometrical data of EU air travelers in data centers open to US spy agencies?

              But since Brexit everyone has well understood that playing by the rules and respecting their partners isn’t on UK’s agenda anymore.

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                9 months ago

                You seem very confused, private companies are always fining you. Parking companies are private companies, many public transport companies are private companies. The oversight is provided by the court. This has been the case before Brexit was even a consideration.