Oh -So it's more than likely to satisfy the sensitivities of those who don't want this information in the public domain, whoever they may be.

If you buy a car and the past MOT certs are included in the paperwork, that's in the public domain - so what's the difference?

Whatever happened to Freedom of Information?

This government spends far too much time pandering to vested interests IMHO.

Edited by focussed on 14/01/2018 at 09:43

The chap that trains us is an ex VOSA senior traffic examiner, we were discussing licences etc during one of the sessions and i asked the question, he reckons data protection, of which apparently there are lots of new guidelines coming into force for companies and govt depts to conform to with penalties for not doing so.

That would fit. A new Data Protection regime comes in later this year. My other half is concerned about it might affect her work in education research because it might require individual opt ins by parents for their children's participation. Current regime is 'opt out'.

If individual testing stations had not been explicitly asked about their name/location being shown then there might well be a problem. There were a handful of cases where testers had put ill advised comments on the advisory notes including observations about the car, it's owner's attitude and their appearance.

And making someting available to the world and his wife is, in DP terms, a very different thing for sharing a paper certificate between individuals with a legititmate interest in the content.

Edited by Bromptonaut on 14/01/2018 at 10:16