Parking Management Firm Sued For Collecting Vehicle Data (1)

Professional Parking Management Corp. illegally obtained the personal information of consumers from motor-vehicle records and used deceptive means to collect payment from them for its parking-lot clients, a proposed federal class action said.

Peter Cicale Jr. alleged that PPMC targeted consumers who parked their cars without paying in lots that it managed, obtained their addresses from motor-vehicle records without their consent, and sent them threatening parking “citations’ intended to resemble government-issued tickets.

The company used camera-based license-plate detection and recognition technology to obtain those vehicle owners’ license plate numbers, and used the numbers to obtain their contact information from motor-vehicle ...