Aviva steps up war on black market for accident data
Finance giant Aviva is calling for a change in the law to force personal injury claims solicitors to declare where…
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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…
Chichester firm raided in pension nuisance call probe
Chichester might be best known for its Cathedral, theatre, and harbour but the Information Commissioner’s Office has unearthed something rather…
Double-glazing firm smashed for 520,000 illegal calls
GDPR might now be grabbing all the headlines but it seems many marketers are still ignoring PECR – the legislation…
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…
DMA fights off competition to retain £5m TPS contract
The DMA has retained the account to run the Telephone Preference Service and Corporate TPS – worth a tidy £5m…
5 million expunged from the TPS as clean-up continues
The Information Commissioner’s Office is continuing to purge inactive and invalid numbers from the Telephone Preference Service and the Corporate…
Jailed car crash data thief ordered to pay back £25,500
A former employee of Nationwide Accident Repair Services, who was banged up in jail for six months in November 2018…
Uproar as data rogue pays back £1 despite £1.4m haul
A rogue company director, who trousered an estimated £1.4m fortune from flogging illegal data and who left debts of over…
Cowboy firms face fresh crackdown on ‘data farming’
Rogue businesses which engage in “data farming” have been warned to expect a knock on the door after UK authorities…