Search Privacy Fines

On two dates in July 2017, the company sent emails to 327,014 people who had already opted out of receiving direct marketing.

The company instigated the transmission of unsolicited electronic mail for the purpose of direct marketing without the sufficient consent of recipients.

Papa John’s (GB) Limited has been fined £10,000 for sending 168,022 nuisance marketing messages to its customers.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Conservative Party £10,000 for sending 51 marketing emails to people who did not want to receive them. It follows an ICO investigation relating to emails sent from the Conservative Party in the name of Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP during the eight days in July 2019 after he was elected Prime Minister. The emails were addressed to the people they were sent to by name and promoted the party’s political priorities, with the last sentence including a link directing them to a website for joining the Conservative Party.

Between 24 April 2020 and 23 May 2020 Global One instigated a total of 573,000 unsolicited direct marketing messages, resulting in total of 548 complaints. They have been fined £10,000.

Between 23 August 2019 and 7 April 2020, a confirmed total of 491,995 direct marketing messages were sent by Seafish Importers Limited and received by subscribers. Of those messages, 276,866 were sent between 20 March 2020 and 7 April 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, relating to the sale of face masks. These messages contained direct marketing material for which subscribers had not provided valid consent.

Tested.me Ltd (TML) of St Albans, provides digital contact tracing services which work by offering people a QR code to scan when arriving at businesses’ premises. The company sent nearly 84,000 nuisance emails at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic between September and November last year, when businesses were using private QR code providers to collect personal data to meet the government’s contact tracing rules.

The Central YMCA sent an email to individuals participating in a programme for people living with HIV using “CC” rather than “BCC”, revealing the email addresses to all recipients. 166 individuals could be identified or potentially identified from their email address. As a result, it could be inferred that these individuals were likely to be living with HIV. The Central YMCA have been fined £7,500 and issued a reprimand.

Energy Suite have been fined for making over 1,000 unsolicited direct marketing calls to subscribers who were registered with the TPS and who had not notified Energy Suite that they were willing to receive such calls, and to three complaints being made as a result.

Documents containing confidential and sensitive information was accessible via the internet

SSE Energy Supply Ltd fined £1,000 after they sent an email to an individual in error.

Failed to comply with the personal data breach reporting requirements under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.