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…
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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…
Telefundraising agency Listen calls time on business
Telephone fundraising agency Listen, which earlier this year blamed GDPR for a collapse in the company’s business, is shutting up…
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…
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,…
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…
Call for data action plan to fight £10bn fraud arms race
The Government is being urged to launch a co-ordinated assault on so-called “suckers lists”, used to target vulnerable consumers, by…
No pain, no gain: charities emerge stronger from GDPR
GDPR might have wrecked charities’ marketing plans last year as fundraising campaigns were shelved en masse, but all the hard…
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…