Canadian to take over as Information Commissioner
The Government has announced that Elizabeth Denham, currently the Information & Privacy Commissioner in British Columbia, Canada, will succeed Christopher…
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REaD Group hires Aimia chief to boost compliance
REaD Group has bolstered its compliance credentials by hiring Andrew Bridges from Aimia to the role of data quality and…
23red lands task to tackle maternity discrimination
Statutory body the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has appointed 23red to lead a campaign to help reduce pregnancy and…
Cancer Research UK commits to opt-in data regime
Cancer Research UK has followed the RNLI by committing to using only opt-in data for all of its fundraising activity,…
Group M ramps up targeting with Live Panel launch
WPP-owned media network Group M is launching a new consumer and media insight tool, designed to help its agencies to…
New clampdown on claims management companies
Claims management firms – blamed for the vast majority of nuisance calls as well encouraging a compensation culture – are…
Microsoft chief grovels after XBox go-go dancer row
Microsoft has been forced to apologise after it hosted an XBox party for computer games developers that featured female go-go…
Death knell for cold calling as TPS reaches 22 million
Outbound telesales are all but dead and buried in the UK with new figures showing nearly 22 million people have…
Govt pledges £5m to beef up open data rival to PAF
Chancellor George Osborne has pledged an additional £5m to build an open address register of all 29 million UK postal…
Up to 30 million could sign up for charity opt-out
Sir Stuart Etherington may rue the day he ever dreamt up the idea of the Fundraising Preference Service if new…