For once, Boris Johnson ignored calls of PECR
Paul Kunert Thu 3 Jun 2021 // 15:09 UTC Share
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Britain’s ruling Conservative Party is facing a £10,000 fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for dispatching marketing emails to unwilling recipients, 51 of whom complained to the regulator.
The ICO issued the financial penalty today for breaching Regulation 22 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). This follows an investigation relating to emails sent by the Tories in the name of their glorious leader, the Rt Hon Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
In the last week of July, after de Pfeffel’s election as Prime Minister, the Party sent out 1,190,280 marketing emails.
The public have rights when it comes to how their personal data is used for marketing, said the ICO s director of investigations, Stephen Eckersley. Getting messages to potential voters is important in a healthy democracy, but political parties must follow the law when doing so. The Conservative Party ought to have known this but failed to comply with the law. All organisations – be they political parties, businesses or others – should give people clear information and choices about what is being done with their personal data. Direct marketing laws are clear, and it is the responsibility of all organisations to ensure they comply.
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Tested.me Ltd broke the PECR, says Information Commissioner s Office
Paul Kunert Wed 19 May 2021 // 08:28 UTC Share
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The UK s data watchdog has fined a company £8,000 for sending 84,000 direct marketing emails without consent to people who had provided their personal data for contact tracing purposes.
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Reg readership will have no problem in calculating this in their heads but for anyone feeling a bit slow today, that s just over 9.5 pence charged by the Information Commissioner s Office (ICO) for each email that reached its target.
The ICO hit Tested.me Ltd (TML) of St Albans with the penalty under section 55A of the Data Protection Act 1998, for a serious contravention of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) 2003. The maximum fine under the legislation is £500,000.