Two firms spanked for torrent of scare-mongering calls
Two home improvement companies have been fined a total of £370,000 for making hundreds of thousands of unlawful marketing calls,…
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ICO finally gets serious about abuse of Corporate TPS
The Information Commissioners Office has fired a warning shot over rogue firms which make unlawful marketing calls to businesses after…
£42.5m in ICO fines unpaid due to appeals and rogues
Efforts to batter companies which break data protection laws are still being hampered by firms that refuse to cough up…
Pension firm slapped down for 39,0000 unlawful calls
The Information Commissioner’s Office is continuing to round up the marketing cowboys by issuing its second fine in as many…
ICO and Irish DPC ‘among the worst GDPR enforcers’
Fresh evidence has emerged as to why privacy groups have such a beef against the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office and…
Deceptive data processing sparks biggest GDPR fines
Companies are far more likely to fall foul of GDPR for dodgy data processing than for any other issue, with…
Oi Graham, no! IT man cuffed for PPE spam email push
The director of a London-based software consultancy, who had the bright idea to exploit the shortage of PPE by buying…
Lead gen firm fingered over 21 million unlawful emails
A lead generation business, which sent out more than 21 million unlawful emails pushing PPI claims, has been given slap…
Rogues hang up as nuisance calls plummet in lockdown
Covid-19 might be wreaking havoc with all areas of business but it seems to have also put the wind up marketing rogues, with…
At last, ICO issues the first PECR penalty in six months
Just when it had seemingly gone all quiet on the Western Front in the war on so-called nuisance calls, a…