Dave,
What is the agreement if a person is arrested on the strength of the
insurers database information if it is subsequently found to be wrong?
The police can claim they legitimately arrested the individual on the
information available. Who will be liaible?
Ian W.
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From: "Dave Wyatt" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>; "Chris Boorman"
<[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 12:39 AM
Subject: RE: Motor Insurance Database
> Short answer no.
>
> Insurers should notify all impacted insured drivers of the fact that data
> will be submitted to this database, this you should find on your insurers
> renewal notice.
> The database will be used by the police, for crime detection purposes and
> motor insurers for insurance administration. I recall a data feed also
> originates from the DVLA to tie to vehicle registration numbers e.g. new
> vehicles. The data controller for the database will be the Motor Insurers
> Bureau a body set up to deal with uninsured driver accidents in the
> Insurance sector where another person is impacted by the actions of an
> insured driver.
>
> All motor insurers will have to submit a data extract to a central
database
> based on statutory rights provided to the Police to originate the creation
> of such a database as an aid to policing. Schedule 2 item 3 applies to the
> insurers processing to produce the extract - Necessary for compliance with
a
> legal obligation to which the data controller is subject, not item 5
> administration of justice.
>
> Each Insurers extract, produced on an ongoing basis, is also subject to
> accuracy target percentages in an attempt to ensure that accuracy
standards
> across the hundreds of different insurers can be maintained. This being
> necessary to ensure potential impacts are minimised where drivers are
> challenged and also given the high costs of the extraction process levied
on
> the insurer and ultimately on the insurer public that all are subject to
> equal standards.
>
> Audit controls will also be implemented over accesses to ensure any
> potential abuse is minimised. Within our organisation (Insurer) I will be
> examining how this is being implemented with our IT security consultants.
> The objective of this database is to provide an efficient method to force
> uninsured drivers off our roads not to impact the rights of law abiding
> individuals. I will be interested to see if I gain a benefit of not having
> to produce my documents at a police station if stopped and can be found on
> the database when forgetting to carry my insurance certificate.
>
> David Wyatt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Chris Boorman
> Sent: 16 November 2000 13:39
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Motor Insurance Database
>
>
> Apologies if this has been discussed before I am a relative newcomer to
this
> mailbase.
>
> I note in the press that The Motor Insurance Bureau is having a Database
> built
> to "crack down on the 1 million uninsured drivers". The data will be
> extracted
> from insurers on line databases and will be made available to the police
for
> on
> the spot police road side checks.
>
> I assume that they are basing this on the first principle schedule 2 "for
> the
> administration of justice".
>
> This database will, I assume, contain data about legitimately insured
> drivers,
> who will not need to have justice administered to them! Surely this comes
> under the heading of Trawling for data. Does this not seem an anomaly?
>
> Will drivers be able to opt out of having thier data processed in this
way?
>
> Chris Boorman
> Data Protection officer
> University of Portsmouth
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