NEW: We’ve fined two financial and debt management companies a total of £150,000 for sending between them over 7.5million spam text messages to people. Quick Tax Claims Limited sent 7,863,547 unlawful text messages over the course of a month, leading to 66,793 complaints. National Debt Advice Limited sent 129,902 spam text messages, leading to 4,033 complaints. Both companies had purchased personal information from third-party suppliers and did not conduct checks to make sure they had valid consent. Use the guidance on our website to make sure that your direct marketing campaigns comply with data protection law: https://lnkd.in/ewShc7pB Read more about the fines on our website: https://lnkd.in/e2G7sRk6
Should have been £150k for each text. Not the sort of company any country would want.
May have missed it but…. What, if anything, has happened to the companies that sold the data? Any investigation of them?
I'm going to print this post and frame it. It's so rare for Information Commissioner's Office to do more than reprimand!
Very informative
Teacher
1dLove this,Data Administrators of these companies have shown utter contempt to their law Where did the third party company obtain the Data of accounts of personal data theft or sold to them. The company stated are an obvious disgrace without any morality. Accountability delivered by ICO investigators. Did the ICO start an investigation result of a persons data being used illegally: the results via calls to ICO. As not seen any add post for a person to contact the ICO to inquire or repost a GDPR data crime.