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…
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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…
Rogue marketers gunning for equity release consumers
First they came for the pensioners, then they came for the PPI victims, and now, it seems, they are after…
Brands failing to tap into consumers’ love of direct mail
Marketers are potentially missing out on building closer customer relationships – and boosting revenues – by failing to embrace the…
‘Wolves of Wind Street’ gang are banged up for 12 years
A gang of four men, who called themselves “The Wolves of Wind Street”, have been jailed for a total of…
Pre-paid funeral firm’s marketing plans buried by ICO
Pre-paid funeral service Avalon Direct has dug itself into a large hole after being fined £80,000 for making unlawful marketing calls…
Swansea telemarketing gang guilty of ‘free’ boiler fraud
A gang of four men who ran a huge telemarketing scam out of an office in Swansea, which it is…
ICO reopens tender to run £5m contract for the TPS
The tender to run the Telephone Preference Service – worth £5m over five years – has been rebooted 18 months…
Gang of four sentenced over Axa Insurance data theft
Four men who ran a scam in which customer data was stolen from Axa Insurance and then passed on to…