It's private, mate!

I've meant to post about this before but somehow never got round to it.  It seems the DVLA make a significant amount of money from selling details of who owns what car to non-governmental organisations - mainly local authorities chasing council tax arrears, and companies running car-parks seeking  to recover fines.  So why is this bad?  Because this is information which the DVLA collected under statutory authority.  When you buy a car you are legally bound to inform the Authority of this fact, giving full details of who you are, how old you are, where you live, and so on.  Now if you give this type of information to someone voluntarily - say in order to get a store-card for example - then you have to accept that it may be sold on to somebody else. and if you don't like the idea of that happening, then the answer is to not give it (and do without the store-card or whatever).  But like I say, when it comes to owning a car, you have no choice.  And it seems to me - that being so - that the quid pro quo should be that your information should remain within government and not be divulged to anyone outside.  I fear I am ploughing a lone furrow, but that's how I see it.