Mandatory notification of data breaches introduced by the European Commission…
The European Commission has passed a new privacy regulation which would require communications providers and Internet service providers to notify individuals whose personal details have been exposed to...
View ArticleAnti-spam company ordered to pay US$27,000 in damages for wrongly...
Spamhaus – an anti-spam company – has been ordered by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to pay E360 US$27,000 in damages for wrongly putting E360 on a spam blacklist. The...
View ArticleBIS consults on implementation of new E-Privacy Directive
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is consulting on plans to implement a new E-Privacy Directive. The European Union law was passed in 2009 and needs to be implemented into domestic law...
View ArticleUK tops the table for spam
The UK ranks above other Western European countries for the circulation of spam (junk email), according to a survey produced by Trend Micro, an Internet security business. Nearly 10% of spam emails...
View ArticleICO targets spam with new enforcement powers
The Government has announced that people or organisations that send spam emails could be fined up to £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). This would be for serious breaches of the...
View ArticleICO warns of £500,000 fine for single incident of spam or automated calls
The Information Commissioner’s Office – the regulator in charge of enforcing UK data protection laws. – has warned businesses that they could face fines of up to £500,000 for a single incident of...
View ArticleICO suffers further setback with fines for unsolicited messages with £300,000...
The Information Commissioner’s Office has suffered another rebuke in its crusade to hand out large fines to wrongdoers for breach of data protection and privacy laws. On this occasion, Christopher...
View ArticleICO reads Riot Act to political parties over unsolicited communications
The Information Commissioner’s Office has written to the political parties to ensure they comply with the laws on data protection and e-marketing, after numerous complaints from people who said they...
View ArticleUpper Tribunal upholds decision that ICO was wrong to issue £300,000 penalty...
The Information Commissioner’s Office has been dealt a damaging blow in its policy to use heavy fines against organisations who commit breaches of UK data protection and spam laws. An Upper Tribunal...
View ArticleGovernment proposes to lower threshold for fines for unsolicited marketing
Businesses that send unsolicited marketing communications could receive fines of up to £500,000 even if their actions do not meet the current high threshold that justify fines, according to new...
View ArticleICO to get new powers to take action against unsolicited marketing
The Information Commissioner’s Office is being given greater powers to take action to stop unsolicited marketing messages. The UK’s data protection and privacy regulator has the power to issue fines of...
View ArticleICO warns of widespread use of new powers to fine up to £500,000 for...
The Information Commissioner’s Office has warned that it is going to have greater latitude to issue fines of up to £500,000 for unsolicited ommunications now that the Privacy and Electronic...
View ArticleInformation Rights Tribunal increases ICO’s monetary penalty for unsolicited...
The Information Rights Tribunal has increased the Information Commissioner’s Office’s fine of a business that had been engaged in unsolicited marketing, contrary to the Privacy and Electronic...
View ArticleInformation Commissioner urges victims of nuisance calls and spam texts to...
Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, has urged victims on the receiving end of nuisance calls and spam texts to report them. The UK’s privacy and data protection regulator is concerned...
View ArticleNuisance call prevention service fined £50,000 for…sending nuisance calls
A company that sold its service as preventing nuisance calls has been fined £50,000…for making nuisance calls of its own to win business. The Information Commissioner’s Office decided that Point One...
View ArticleWhat did you say? The Hearing Clinic fined £220,000 for nuisance calls
Readers may be forgiven for not believing what they are about to hear, but The Hearing Clinic has been fined £220,000 by the Claims Management Regulator after the CMR received hundreds of complaints...
View ArticleInformation Rights Tribunal rules against business for relying on data...
Organisations cannot rely on terms in their contacts with suppliers of data to show consent for their use of that data if consent has not actually been validly given. The Information Commissioner’s...
View ArticleICO issues first fine for unsolicited marketing texts
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Help Direct UK Ltd £200,000 for sending thousands of unsolicited marketing texts in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. This...
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