Virgin Media fined for illegal email marketing campaign
Virgin Media has finally come a cropper over its alleged dodgy data practices after being caught circumventing privacy regulations to…
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Cold call crackdown clobbers Fulham pension advisor
The Information Commissioner’s Office might be without a boss for the next month, with Elizabeth Denham gone and successor John…
Unite union fined for abusing data rights of members
Unite the Union, the UK’s second largest trade union which fights for the rights of more than 1.4 million workers,…
Top brands fingered and fined for being PECR wreckers
The Information Commissioner’s Office has sent out yet another warning to companies that it will leave no stone unturned in…
Will tougher fines bring victory in nuisance call war?
It seems the fresh clampdown on so-called nuisance calls – proposed in the Government’s data reforms – cannot come soon…
Telemarketing sharks speared but still have a new firm
The battle against rogue marketing firms has claimed yet another scalp, with Glasgow-based company DialADeal Scotland being whacked with a…
Cold war: Another pension business gets hit in the PECR
Halifax-based company Parkin Beacher has become the latest firm to fall foul of the crackdown on illegal marketing to people…
ICO paves way for public sector to ramp up DM activity
Government departments and local councils could soon be ramping up their direct communications – promoting anything from healthy lifestyles to…
Sainsbury’s data cock-up delays product recall email
GDPR might have been in force for over three years but still even the biggest brands are getting it wrong…
Call blocking firm hit with £170,000 fine for TPS abuse
A Hove-based company has been battered for making nearly 200,000 unlawful marketing calls to people to sell them a call…