Line blocking trial halts 99% of unwanted phone calls
A pilot project which saw thousands of call blocking devices installed in the homes of vulnerable and elderly people has…
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Sector preps charm offensive for new Culture Secretary
The marketing industry has yet another Government minister to try to get on its side following the political turmoil sparked…
Door drops prove mettle as sector predicts GDPR boom
The door-drop industry fought off the widescale disruption to schedules caused by last year’s snap General Election – as well…
Firms bogged down in data; clueless what to do with it
The wisdom of brands embracing multiple customer data collection points has been brought into question after more than a third…
Colling strikes fresh deal with finance firm Oak North
Direct marketing media chief Mike Colling will be even more bullish than normal today – if that is possible –…
N Brown brands bag extra £2m with optimisation tool
N Brown, the online shopping giant behind brands including Simply Be, JD Williams and Jacamo, has witnessed a 12% uplift…
Welsh firm gets battered for 270,000 illegal texts
Another week, another company falls foul of the overworked but unrelenting Information Commissioner’s Office, with the latest business to join…
Virgin Media in dock again as it cuts off ‘dead customer’
Virgin Media’s data governance has taken another body blow after a Teeside man had his subscription cancelled because the company…
Neil Matthews quits Sony for new privacy consultancy
Sony privacy chief Neil Matthews – the former global marketing data protection and privacy manager at Dell and head of…
World’s biggest tech firms accused of flouting GDPR
It seems Google is not the only company struggling to come to terms with GDPR; according to an analysis of…