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ICO fines 4 firms for nuisance calls and spam texts

The ICO has fined four firms a total of £600,000:

  • Barrington Claims Limited had made over 15 million automated calls about PPI;
  • Newday Limited used other firms to send 44.7 million spam emails to promote its financial products to people who had subscribed to websites the other firms operated;
  • Goody Market UK Limited, operator of an insurance price comparison site, sent over 110,000 spam texts to a list of people it purchased from a data broker. ICO found it had relied on verbal assurances from the broker that the data had previously been used in text marketing; and
  • TFLI Limited sent around 1.19 million spam texts promoting a loan website, again using personal details provided by other companies. ICO found it was negligent in failing to take responsibility for ensuring people had agreed to receive the messages.

FIN. Team