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02 Oct, 2018

Manchester firm fined £150,000 for making nuisance calls

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A Manchester firm has been fined £150,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office(ICO) for making thousands of nuisance direct marketing phone calls. Oaklands Assist UK Ltd based in Radcliffe, made 63,724 calls over a two month period [...] Read More

Credit reference agency Equifax fined for data breach. GDPR

20 Sep, 2018

Credit reference agency Equifax fined £500,000 for security breach

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued credit reference agency Equifax Ltd with a £500,000 fine for failing to protect the personal information of up to 15 million UK citizens during a cyber attack in 2017. The incident, [...] Read More

GDPR Fine for Email Marketing without permission consent

10 Sep, 2018

Marketing agency fined £60,000 for nuisance emails

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Everything DM Ltd (EDML), based in Stevenage, £60,000 for sending 1.42 million emails without consent. The investigation found that, between May 2016 and May 2017, the firm used [...] Read More

09 Aug, 2018

Marketing firm fined £100,000 for GDPR breach

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The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined an East Sussex marketing company £100,000 for making 75,649 nuisance calls. AMS Marketing Ltd, of Peacehaven, made the calls to people who had opted out of receiving marketing calls by registering [...] Read More

Sout Wales Firm Fined for GDPR non compliance

06 Jul, 2018

South Wales firm fined £60,000 for nuisance pay day loan texts

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A South Wales firm has been fined £60,000 by the Information Commissioner for allowing its lines to be used to send spam texts to more than 270,000 people, without their consent. A total of 274,423 [...] Read More

19 Jun, 2018

Bible Society fined £100,000 for risking supporters data

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Bible Society fined £100,000 after security failings put supporters’ personal data at risk The British and Foreign Bible Society, based in Swindon, has been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office, after their computer network [...] Read More

Gloucestershire Police fined GDPR - DoLocal

11 Jun, 2018

Gloucestershire Police fined by ICO for GDPR Breach

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Gloucestershire Police fined for revealing identities of abuse victims in bulk email. Gloucestershire Police has been fined £80,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after sending a bulk email that identified victims of non-recent child abuse. [...] Read More

Chief Constable of Humberside Police has signed an undertaking for GDPR

08 Jun, 2018

Lee Freeman Chief Constable of Humberside Police GDPR Violation

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Humberside Police The Chief Constable of Humberside Police has signed an undertaking to comply with the Seventh Data Protection Principle. ICO case reference: COM0649315 DATA PROTECTION ACTION 1998 UNDERTAKING Data Controller: HUMBERSIDE POLICE Headquarters Priory [...] Read More

21 May, 2018

Yahoo! UK Services Ltd Fined £250,000

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Yahoo! UK Services Limited, based in London, has been fined £250,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after their computer network was compromised as the result of a cyber-attack. Yahoo! UK Services Ltd monetary penalty notice Read More

21 May, 2018

University of Greenwich fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner

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The University of Greenwich fined £120,000 by Information Commissioner for “serious” security breach The University of Greenwich has been University of Greenwich Monetary Penalty GDPR Data Breach following a “serious” security breach involving the personal data [...] Read More