Search Privacy Fines

Breach of Principle 7 of the DPA involving highly sensitive personal data where a number of data subjects were involved.

Sending unsolicited direct marketing texts to mobile subscribers who had not consented to receive them

Holmes Financial Solutions Ltd fined £300,000 after they instigated the transmission of automated marketing calls to individuals without their prior consent.

The MOD sent emails inadvertently using the “To” field rather than the “Bcc” field. 265 unique email addresses were disclosed in breach of GDPR Article 5(1)(f). The MOD were fined £350,000.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a London-based pharmacy £275,000 for failing to ensure the security of special category data.

Marketing Company made unsolicited automated marketing calls without the consent of the recipients

Easyleads Limited made unsolicited automated marketing calls without consent of recipients

Barrington Claims Ltd fined £250,000 after they failed to ensure automated marketing calls were sent to individuals who had consented to receive marketing.

Unsolicited calls for direct marketing purposes to subscribers who had registered with the Telephone Preference Service in contravention of Regulation 21 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

Yahoo! UK Services Limited has been fined £250,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) following a cyber-attack in November 2014. The incident was publicly disclosed in September 2016, almost two years after it had taken place.

A company who made over 6 million automated marketing calls relating to hearing loss claims

Newday Ltd fined £230,000 after they failed to ensure automated emails were sent to individuals who had consented to receive marketing.

Leads Work Limited sent 2,670,140 marketing text messages to individuals without their consent, resulting in excess of 10,000 complaints, over a period of 41 days.

Hacker threatened to publish thousands of names of people who sought advice on abortion, pregnancy and contraception

Between 1 January 2019 and 28 May 2019 Pownall Marketing Limited used a public electronic communications service for the purpose of making 365,369 unsolicited calls for direct marketing purposes to subscribers in relation to claims management services, resulting in 63 complaints.

Reliance Advisory Limited fined £250,000 for breaking electronic marketing law. Over a six month period from the start of 2019, the Bury-based company made 15.1 million calls in relation to claims management services such as mis-sold PPI. All of the calls, of which 1.1 million connected, were made to people who had not consented to receive them.

Company sent unsolicited text messages for direct marketing purposes without the consent of the recipients

Sending out thousands of unsolicited marketing text messages. People complained about a variety of messages offering services including the reclaim of PPI payments, bank refunds and loans.

Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) fined £200,000 for revealing identities of abuse victims in mass email

A green energy company who made over six million calls as part of a automated call marketing campaign offering ‘free’ solar panels.

Laptops containing videos of police interviews were stolen from a private film studio