Unfortunately yes. There is an exemption from the Data Protection Act that allows the DVLA to sell car keeper details to parking enforcement gangs. Read the booklet that accompanies the V5C of your car. Now the British Parking Association is trying to get a bill through Parliament making car keepers responsible for private parking fines whoever was driving the car. Nick Clegg might regain some popularity by stopping this, if his bosses allow him to. Obviously landowners have to have some control over who parks on their land. But Parliament also needs to control the controllers, otherwise this is another licence to print money under the Penalty Culture introduced by Gordon Brown that we thought we had got rid of.