Does Islington council offer a 20% discount if the punter pays their fine early?
London council 'failed to test' parking ticket app, exposed personal info
A London council has been fined £70,000 after design faults in its TicketViewer app allowed unauthorised access to 119 documents containing sensitive personal information. The parking ticket application, set up in 2012, was developed by Islington council's internal application team for the authority's parking services. It …
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Thursday 17th August 2017 14:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
Does Islington council offer a 20% discount if the punter pays their fine early?
Very possibly. I recently got a penalty notice for driving in a "trams only" zone in Nottingham, and the prompt payment discount was 50%. I'd prefer clearer signs rather than a discount PCN, but the signs are all compliant with the Department against Transport's rules, so I suppose only partially Nottingham CC's fault.
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Thursday 17th August 2017 15:26 GMT Stevie
a 20% discount if the punter pays early
Here in NY if you try and use the Official Website to pay off your totally bogus fit-up job red light violation* you get charged a grubbing and usurious surcharge for making it easier for the state government.
This is because they farm out the collection to predatory gits who retask roller-coaster mugshot tech for draconian innocent car driver victimization, who use the Roman Tax Farmer model for revenue generation - a process with the technical name "Skimming".
If you then decide "the hell with it, I'll send 'em a check by (arthritic) snail-mail in the envelope provided" you find that the envelope provided is emblazoned with the legend "Red Light Violation Guilty Plea Fine Enclosed" in shouty bold right under the mandatory (in these post 9/11 days) return name and address so anyone seeing it knows you are an axe murderer in the making.
8op 8ob 8op
Thrrrrrrrrrrrrrp!
*AKA a fair cop but society is to blame*
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Friday 18th August 2017 12:20 GMT Valerion
Re: a 20% discount if the punter pays early
Here in NY if you try and use the Official Website to pay off your totally bogus fit-up job red light violation* you get charged a grubbing and usurious surcharge for making it easier for the state government.
I got a parking ticket on Long Island a couple of weeks ago. The only means of payment are via things like "certified check". As a tourist there is no way I could actually pay the thing - there's no go online and pay option*
So I'll have to wait for the fine to be doubled for not paying early, then be passed to the car rental firm, who will then pass it on to me, no doubt with a hefty admin fee added on. My only slim hope rests on the fact the car was a Canadian rental that I had bought over the border.
*Shouldn't be too surprised given even Chip and Pin is a recent phenomenon over there.
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Thursday 17th August 2017 16:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
Public service and fines
Ugh... another public body getting fined. Does this now mean that Islington can't afford to pay a social worker and they reduce their quality of service to the people that need it? I don't have an issue with the need to fine organisations that don't fulfil their duty of care to data protection, but I hate the fact that we financially penalise these organisations that are already cash strapped. There MUST be an alternative - make them spend the equivalent fine on the technology or people needed to protect the data in the first place!?
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Thursday 17th August 2017 17:21 GMT nsld
Tax roundabout
So the taxpayers of Islington have paid for the incompetence of the council that they pay for.
Whats the betting that none of the in house staff at Islington responsible for this have been fired?
The council should be within its rights to fire them, and sue them for the costs incurred as well.
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Friday 18th August 2017 04:08 GMT veti
Re: Tax roundabout
The taxpayers of Islington are the ones who saved money by not testing the system in the first place. It's completely appropriate that they should be the ones to foot the bill now.
And those same taxpayers of Islington are, of course, completely within their rights to fire the councillors associated with the project, who are the only people you can reasonably argue are 'responsible'. They'll get a chance to do that next May.