Business chief slams ICO after crash data theft case
One of the so-called “North-West gang of eight”, who was prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office for obtaining customers’ contact…
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North-West gang of eight guilty of mass crash data theft
Eight men from the North-West have been found guilty of unlawfully accessing and obtaining people’s personal data from vehicle repair…
194,000 illegal marketing calls condemn sole trader
Sales leads might be the bread and butter of your average sole trader, but one Newcastle man appears have been…
Firm that targets dodgy firms battered for dodgy calls
A company which writes letters for consumers who are seeking compensation and refunds from firms accused of misselling practices has…
Ofcom steps up fight against dodgy network providers
Ofcom is ramping up its enforcement programme against network providers which fail to ensure the phone numbers that they have…
Boss of ‘abusive’ nuisance call firm banned for 4 years
The boss of a home improvement company which made more than 900,000 cold-calls – many of them “abusive” and aggressive”…
Horsham firm battered for knowingly using illegal data
The historic market town of Horsham might be best known as the home of Catherine Howard and Percy Bysshe Shelley…
ICO whacks two Greater Manchester firms on the PECR
The 25-year war on nuisance callers has claimed two more scalps, with two Greater Manchester-based companies fined a total of…
PECR gripes hit 3-year high as Whac-A-Mole continues
The 25-year war on so-called nuisance calls and texts appears no closer to being won, with complaints set for a…
AI ‘granny scambaiter’ Daisy joins O2 war on fraudsters
O2 is mounting a fightback against the ever-rising tide of telephone fraudsters by launching an AI-generated “granny scambaiter” called Daisy,…