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EE fined £100,000 for unlawful texts
The Information Commissioner (ICO) has fined mobile network EE £100,000 for sending text messages to customers without their consent. The ICO says more than 2.5 million messages were sent in 2018. The purpose of the texts was to encourage EE customers to use the firm's app and also to upgrade their... -
5corpio started a blog post ICO fines Yahoo! UK Services Limited £250,000 after it failed to protect customers’ personal datain 5corpioICO fines Yahoo! UK Services Limited £250,000 after it failed to protect customers’ personal data
The ICO has fined Yahoo! UK Services Limited £250,000 after a cyber-attack in November 2014. The incident was not publicly disclosed until September 2016, at which point we began a detailed and complex investigation into the matter, focusing on the impacted UK user accounts. The investigation, carried... -
Holmes Financial Solutions Ltd fined
A company that made 8.7 million nuisance calls has been fined £300,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Holmes Financial Solutions Ltd, based in Speke, Liverpool, made the automated marketing calls between 22 October 2015 and 27 July 2016. The 8,792,907 calls contained recorded messages,... -
Plusnet fined £880,000 for billing former customers
Plusnet fined £880,000 for billing former customers
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 22nd March 2017 20:17
Plusnet, an internet service provider owned by BT, has been fined £880,000 for wrongly billing more than 1,000 former customers. An investigation by watchdog... -
Vodafone fined £4.6m by Ofcom for breaking customer rules
Vodafone fined £4.6m by Ofcom for breaking customer rules
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 26th October 2016 10:33
Regulator Ofcom has fined Vodafone £4.6m for "serious" breaches of consumer protection rules, its largest fine to date for a telecoms operator.... -
FCA fines CT Capital Ltd for failures related to PPI complaint handling
FCA fines CT Capital Ltd for failures related to PPI complaint handling
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 5th June 2016 07:02
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today fined CT Capital Ltd (CT Capital) £2,360,900 for serious failings in its historic Payment Protection... -
Licence fee dodgers to be fined more if they have Sky Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
Licence fee dodgers to be fined more if they have Sky Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 19th May 2016 16:18
Penalties could be doubled for viewers who have subscriptions channels...
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Swansea branded Britain's cold call capital - Falcon and Pointer and Direct Choice Home Improvements
Swansea branded Britain's cold call capital - Falcon and Pointer and Direct Choice Home Improvements
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 24th March 2016 14:56
......after two more firms are fined for pestering households with nuisance calls...
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Prodial - Fined £350k For 46 Million Cold Calls
Prodial - Fined £350k For 46 Million Cold Calls
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 1st March 2016 14:04
Prodial made a "staggering" number of spam calls, leaving thousands of people feeling "helpless" after they could not opt out....
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URGENT NEED HELP PLEASE VW CAR
hi guys i need advice,
my dad had a car and sworn it. he had to remove the car due to garden work and parcked it into the street. he has now been fined.
he cannot attend court on friday, we have a special needs child, the car is hired and was taken into council because it had no... -
Text plan to tackle nuisance calls on mobile phones
Text plan to tackle nuisance calls on mobile phones
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 8th December 2015 08:08
Mobile phone users will be able to send a text to opt out of receiving marketing calls, under regulators' plans....
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Lead generator fined after offering to write off personal debts - Oxygen Ltd
Lead generator fined after offering to write off personal debts - Oxygen Ltd
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 10th November 2015 17:54
A lead generation firm that made more than a million unsolicited calls offering to write off people’s debts has been fined £120,000.... -
Spam text message firm Help Direct UK fined £200,000
Spam text message firm Help Direct UK fined £200,000
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 27th October 2015 12:33
A company has been censured for a second time in seven months for sending out spam text messages - this time with a £200,000 fine....
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Record £570k fine for PPI claims management firm
Record £570k fine for PPI claims management firm
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 20th October 2015 12:40
A claims management company has been fined £570,000 for pressurising hundreds of customers into making payment protection insurance (PPI) claims. The Claims Management... -
Record fine for nuisance calls firm - Homebased Energy & Lifestyle Management Ltd
Record fine for nuisance calls firm - Homebased Energy & Lifestyle Management Ltd
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 30th September 2015 10:18
A firm has been handed a record fine for nuisance calls after making more than six million automated calls in a solar panel...
