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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Anna Tims

Ulez fines scandal: Italian police ‘illegally accessed’ thousands of EU drivers’ data

ulez signs on a London street
The deepening Ulez fines scandal has been called ‘the biggest data and privacy breach in EU history’ by a Belgian MP. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The names and addresses of thousands of EU drivers were unlawfully accessed by Italian police and shared with the company that collects Ulez penalties on behalf of Transport for London (TfL), investigators believe.

The Italian data protection authority is investigating claims by Belgium’s government that an unnamed police department misused official powers to pass the personal details of Belgian drivers to Euro Parking Collections, which is employed by TfL to issue fines to enforce London’s low emission zone (Lez) and ultra-low emission zone.

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