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WITHOUT PREJUDICE ...
Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter. (Isaiah 59:14 NKJV) Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and the alleged illegal release of motor vehicle registration data to parking lot management companies !"4. By parking on this property, you have granted permission to the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) to release the registered owner information, including name and address of the registered owner of the vehicle you parked, to Diamond Parking Ltd. for the purposes of collecting unpaid parking fees and/or violation notice fees."What permission? How can parking one's car, be construed as giving written permission to ICBC? Revenue Canada tried getting away with passive permission, when they passed on personal data for the Voters List. Revenue Canada had to get specific written permission from each and every individual, to pass the information on, from their data base! No meant NO! for the federal government taxation agency. It is this editorial opinion that ICBC has a legal problem with their failure to get written permission to access the Department of Ministry of Transportation and Highways Motor Vehicle Data Base, from each registrant, before passing the information on to parking log management companies. Does Diamond Parking Ltd. have an obligation to ensure ICBC has written permission from each motor vehicle registrant, to release our private data from the Ministry of Transportation and Highways Motor Vehicle Data Base? Diamond Parking Ltd. has reportedly issued tickets requesting payment, from vehicle registration information gained from the licence plates of vehicles parked at Royal City Centre. Those tickets will become prima-facie evidence of a possible case to be investigated by the R.C.M.P. Is there a breach of trust here, on the behalf of ICBC, in this matter? Now, considering the Constable Steven Parker case, this editorial opinion is that ICBC executives have very little wiggle room. How can they claim they were not really thinking (a bad hair day, maybe?), when giving away our private information, without proper written permission? Naughty boys and girls, at ICBC corporate headquarters. Look at the Constable Steven Parker case in layman's terms — a cop can't do it, but ICBC and parking attendants can ... eh? If prosecution was good for the Delta police officer, is it good for the alleged offenders — ICBC and involved parking companies, that issued the tickets? The constable paid the price, a five-day suspended sentence. What penalty should ICBC executives pay if found guilty of any offense? How far back should we go in any prosecution of the matter? So ... read the following articles and weep! Delta police officer Steven Parker - illicitly searching the licence plate numbers of staff and patients "Parker Appeal Requested" "As reported in the Autumn 1996 issue of Pro-Choice Press, Delta Police Constable Steven Parker was charged in September with six new charges of discreditable conduct, for illicitly searching the licence plate numbers of staff and patients at the Everywoman's Health Centre (EHC). At a public inquiry hearing in June, Parker had been given a 5-day suspended sentence for searching six licence plates . It was only afterwards that an additional six searches were uncovered. The Delta Police is conducting an internal inquiry into these latest searches, which has been postponed by them until later in the new year." Access To Personal Information Through The Motor Vehicle Data Base C. BACKGROUND 2. Scope of the Report News media attention in this instance has tended to focus on the actions of a certain officer of the Delta Police Department, and possible breach of trust in the use of the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) system to gain access to personal information. The Delta Police Department has referred this specific concern to Crown Counsel for consideration of criminal charges. B. SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS 4. The software employed by ICBC for the Motor Vehicle Database should be re-engineered so that there is a powerful, easily accessible electronic record of all entries into and output from the database, including a record of the number of and type of files consulted. (Page 13) 6. ICBC, in collaboration with the ministry, should embark on a public education project aimed at informing vehicle registrants of their privacy rights under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The information contained should spell out in clear, understandable language the avenues for launching privacy-related complaints, both within ICBC or the ministry, and to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. (Page 15)   A Mix of Public and Private Policing?I.C.B.C. is already involved in policing in several ways, with the insurance company pressing for prosecution of motor vehicle accident related fraud, through civil law, (one case thrown out of court, they gave up on another). Ex-R.C.M.P. officers were hired to investigate these cases on behalf of the insurance company. ICBC is thus attempying to use civil law to reverse the burden of proof from the Crown to the individual. ICBC also is involved with the points system used to penalize driving infractions, and the red light camera program. Why has this Crown corporation been moved from being under the Attorney General to being under the Solicitor General and provincial policing? So, what gain has ICBC in all of this? And, does this relate in some way to the parking stall tax? Do you even remember the Greater Vancouver Regional District's and Translink's parking tax ? Is ICBC just a middle man, in a more complex arrangement with future considerations? Conspiracy anyone? Bring Burnaby-based Digital Payment Technologies into the equation, and you see the possiblity of an integrated private and municipal parking tax grab coming. A strange futuristic mix of Civilian and Municipal Parking By-law enforcement. Your licence plate and your private information is up for grabs! Is this really legal? Are local municipal governments getting the public ready for a change, by having their local Bylaw Enforcement Officers take digital photos of the licence plates of the cars involved in street parking violations? So far, the public reaction is not good ... Mix this with municipalities pressing to have all their municipal workers on crime watch duty. What if a bylaw officer doesn't like you talking about him/her and he/she takes a digital picture or movie of you on the street? Well, the bylaw officer could be photographed end up on Facebook the next day, and YouTube the next week. None of us want this kind of result. But, it can so easily happen. We now have the SECRET parking ticket police — " John Doe", and parking ticket related violence. So much for one's day in court. Is this a sampling of what is to come? Our politicians turning everyone against his/her neighbours? Remember the movie Future Force about C.O.P.S. [Civilian Operated Police Systems Inc.], a private organization taking over law enforcement? Well, this may become a reality, sooner than we think. Be aware of the coming technology. Make up your mind if you want it in your city. 1. Licence Plate Recognition 2. Licence-Plate-Enabled-Parking BE INFORMED! Sign up and download the full PDF file. You need PDF reader software.Class action law suit forthcoming ?Will the Internet media attention on this matter of alleged breach of public trust, because of the questionable access of the Motor Vehicle data base, lead to the R.C.M.P. referring this matter to Crown Counsel for consideration of criminal charges, against the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and some of its executive officers? Don't tell us the government says you can do it, ICBC executives. Following orders is not an excuse. That was made clear to the world at the Nuremberg Trials. Who is to say whether some Members of Cabinet (past or present) will be drawn into this mess? Any "wicked leaks" documents out there for the R.C.M.P. to view, that might shed some light on this matter? Send them to the R.C.M.P.
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