Day: October 18, 2012

I have just won a minor victory against my local authority (Waltham Forest) which used images captured by a mobile CCTV unit to issue a £110 fixed penalty notice for a parking violation; I managed to get the penalty set aside. This blog presents the case that the Council’s use of CCTV in instances like mine are in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) and possibly the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), even though there are parking restrictions