TPS abuse appeal goes tits up as judge increases fine
Companies which find themselves on the wrong side of the Information Commissioner’s Office should be careful what they wish for after one…
PECR
Fresh delay leaves ePrivacy Regulation dead in water
The much maligned ePrivacy Regulation appears all but dead and buried after representatives of the EU states have rejected the…
Show us the money: £7m in ICO fines still outstanding
Over £7m in fines issued for breaches of data protection and telemarketing laws in the UK over the past four…
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…
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…
Boiler business hammered £160,000 over TPS failure
The Telephone Preference Service might be shrinking, with over 5 million inactive and invalid numbers being deleted since last year,…
ICO drops data bombshell as cookie law is overhauled
The Information Commissioner’s Office has torn up its own advice on how firms can gather data through online cookies by…
Marketers braced for fresh crackdown on online data
Marketers are facing a major new threat to how they gather online data, amid fears that so-called “implied consent” for cookies…
EE clobbered with fine for illegal marketing campaign
Mobile giant EE has become the latest major brand to have its collar felt by the data regulator after being…
Data marketing industry ‘put on notice to adapt or die’
Just 24 hours after the adtech sector was accused of systemic breaches of GDPR, the guns are now being turned…