Data thief dodges jail but must pay back £25k or else
A former RAC employee, who stole the personal data of customers involved in traffic accidents and then flogged the information…
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Rogues go free as nuisance call crackdown is sidelined
The scourge of so-called nuisance calls is still alive and kicking, with an analysis of complaints made to the Information…
Solar firm bosses scorched with six year director ban
Two bosses of a Stockton-on-Tees solar panel company, who caused their business to make almost 75,000 calls to people registered…
Another one bites the dust: TPS abuser gets 5-year ban
Company director Jonathon De Sousa, whose business Xternal Property Renovations was found to have bombarded more than 110,000 people with…
The wheels come off for Vote Leave over illegal texts
Vote Leave might have got away with its controversial battle bus but, when it comes to illegal marketing, it has…
UK watchdogs fail to hound out nuisance call cowboys
UK regulators have been forced to admit that the war on rogue telemarketers – which has included millions of pounds…
ICO hails rogue call victory as director bans top 100 yrs
The Information Commissioner’s Office is bigging up its achievements in the ongoing war against rogue telemarketing bosses, after revealing its…
Out in the cold: two more rogues banned for 10 years
The bosses of two lead generation firms have been barred from holding company directorships for a total of ten years…
Finance firm hit by £200,000 fine for 15m illegal texts
London-based finance firm Tax Returned has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for sending out millions of…
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…