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From: HMP Britain
28 September 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have recently seen a television advertisement from Car Spotters.
This service allows a customer to send a text from a mobile phone,
and for a fee of £3, it will send you information on the car such
as its year of manufactrue, date of first register, its
accelleration performance, top speed etc.
It is my understanding that this services uses a local database to
establish these figures. That is to say, the service interrogates a
database supplied by the DVLA and held on the service provider's
computers and not a database held at the DVLA.
My question is this:
1. What is the nature of the database used by this and other such
services?
2. What are the licensing terms?
3. Please send me a copy of the database(s) sold to these services.
Yours faithfully,
HMP Britain
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Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
5 October 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please see the attached.
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September 2009 13:45:51 >>>
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have recently seen a television advertisement from Car
Spotters.
This service allows a customer to send a text from a mobile
phone,
and for a fee of *3, it will send you information on the car such
as its year of manufactrue, date of first register, its
accelleration performance, top speed etc.
It is my understanding that this services uses a local database
to
establish these figures. That is to say, the service interrogates
a
database supplied by the DVLA and held on the service provider's
computers and not a database held at the DVLA.
My question is this:
1. What is the nature of the database used by this and other such
services?
2. What are the licensing terms?
3. Please send me a copy of the database(s) sold to these
services.
Yours faithfully,
HMP Britain
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