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Road charges and parking, checked
Short, source-cited notes on how UK road charges and private parking enforcement actually work, with the numbers stated carefully.
How a URL-enumeration flaw can expose parking records
A broken-access-control weakness reportedly exposed parking customer records across several countries. Here is the pattern, explained with safe placeholders.
ReadTfL penalised a quarter of tunnel vehicles in seven months
An FOI investigation found penalty notices reached 25.7% of unique vehicles using the Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels between April and mid-November 2025, around 630,000, raising an estimated £40 to £48 million.
ReadMost tunnel charges are paid on Auto Pay
In the final quarter of 2025, 83.7 to 84.9 percent of paid tunnel charges went through Auto Pay or Fleet accounts, with compliance between 88.5 and 89.7 percent.
ReadThe ICO fined Capita £14m after a breach hitting 6.6 million people
£8m against Capita plc and £6m against Capita Pension Solutions Ltd, announced on 15 October 2025.
ReadThe five biggest requesters of DVLA keeper data
ParkingEye leads a field that made roughly 39,375 requests a day and generated about £35.9m in DVLA fees.
ReadPrivate parking requests to the DVLA more than doubled in six years
DVLA vehicle-keeper data requests rose 111% between 2018-19 and 2024-25. Here is what that number does, and does not, tell us.
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