Industry hails switch of TPS from Ofcom to the ICO
The direct marketing industry has welcomed Government plans to switch responsibility for the Telephone Preference Service out of Ofcom to…
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Denham hires diplomat as ICO deputy commissioner
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has already gone one better than predecessor Christopher Graham by appointing a new deputy commissioner, drafting…
ICO poised to draw up new code for direct marketing
The Digital Rights Bill has passed through the commitee stage reasonably unscathed, despite seeing the direct marketing industry being savaged,…
17-year-old lad pleads guilty to TalkTalk ‘car crash’
A teenager who admitted to a friend that he had done enough to go to prison for his part in…
Pension cold calling could be banned within weeks
Finance companies could soon be outlawed from making cold calls about pensions following fears that the pension freedoms have triggered…
Facebook waves white flag over WhatsApp data plan
Facebook has bowed to pressure from Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham by agreeing to suspend its data collection from UK WhatsApp…
New laws to finally nail rogue call company bosses
Directors of companies which abuse nuisance call laws will finally be held to account for the actions of their businesses…
ICO issues privacy notice warning in first GDPR code
Brand owners are being warned that it is no longer enough to stick a privacy notice on their website and…
Acxiom is first major player to offer Privacy Shield
Acxiom is claiming to have got one over on its rivals by announcing it has become the first major data company…
TalkTalk could have faced £70m fine under GDPR
TalkTalk has expressed its “disappointment” at the £400,000 fine dished out by the Information Commissioner’s Office over last October’s data…