Search Privacy Fines

Outsource Strategies Ltd made 1,346,503 unwanted marketing calls between 11 February 2021 and 22 March 2022 to numbers registered with the TPS. The ICO received 74 complaints from people variously saying they received repeated calls despite requests to stop and that the callers were aggressive.

A health trust that posted the private details of 6,574 members of staff on its website

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

Automated calls being made relating to PPI, packaged bank accounts and flight delays

A witness in a serious fraud, bribery and corruption investigation was mistakenly sent evidence relating to 64 other people involved in the case

A health trust revealed the email addresses of more than 700 users of a HIV service

We Buy Any Car Ltd sent 191.4 million marketing emails and 3.6 million marketing SMS messages to individuals without fully satisfying the requirements of soft opt in, resulting in 42 complaints to the Commissioner, over a period of 12 months

Specialist online travel insurer offering additional travel insurance services to the general public

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a home improvement firm £200,000 for making more than half a million unsolicited marketing calls.

Hacker obtained  large number of credit & debit card details following the use of insecure coding on the website of a subsidiary business

Between 1 February 2021 to 31 July 2021, Apex Assure Limited used a public telecommunications service for the purposes of making 122 unsolicited calls for direct marketing purposes to subscribers where the number allocated to the subscriber in respect of the called line was a number listed on the register of numbers kept by the Commissioner in accordance with regulation 26, contrary to regulation 21(1)(b) of PECR. This resulted in 122 complaints being made to the TPS and the Commissioner.

F12 Management Ltd made 1,346,019 marketing calls to individuals in breach of regulation 21 of PECR. The company was fined £200,000 and issued with an enforcement notice.

Cover Appliance Ltd made 511,499 marketing calls to individuals in breach of regulation 21 of PECR. The company was fined £200,000 and issued with an enforcement notice.

Making it Easy Ltd has been fined £160,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for making spam calls to people registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS).