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
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
10 Sep, 2018
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
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
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
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
11 Jun, 2018
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
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