London, UK — We've made a change to how plate checks work — and it's a big one for your privacy. Registration lookups are now restricted to verified suppliers only.
Members of the public can no longer run a check on a registration. Only verified suppliers — the manufacturers who make number plates — can look up a plate, and only after verifying their customer's email, name and phone number.
- Your plate details are no longer visible to random lookups
- Checks only happen where they should — at the point a plate is being made
- If a supplier checks your protected plate, you still get an instant alert
When you check a registration, you'll confirm the customer's email, name and phone number before the check completes. That's the verification step that keeps cloned plates out of the supply chain.
Cloners rely on being able to check plates quietly before ordering copies. By restricting checks to verified suppliers, we've removed that first step — protecting owners and keeping the supply chain clean.
ABOUT PROTECT A PLATE
Protect A Plate is the UK's vehicle registration verification network. It protects drivers, suppliers, fleets and insurers from number plate cloning, fraud and misuse by verifying every plate request against a live register before a plate is manufactured — and alerting the registered owner instantly if their registration is ever flagged or reported stolen. The goal is a UK in which a cloned plate simply cannot be manufactured, because the industry itself refuses to be the weak link. ICO-registered and UK-based, Protect A Plate serves drivers, suppliers, fleets and insurers at protect-a-plate.co.uk.
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