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The Register (protected by Cloudflare; archived copy) reports:
A UK firm found responsible for orchestrating 99.5 million nuisance calls has been fined a record £400,000 (US$517,550) by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
[...] The calls, made over an 18-month period, punted services related to road traffic accident claims and PPI compensation. Some people received repeat calls, sometimes during unsociable hours. Keurboom routinely hid its identity [...]
The BBC's coverage notes:
Keurboom director Greg Rudd told the Mirror newspaper that he found cold-calling "annoying" but said it was "part of life".
"I don't enjoy receiving them but that doesn't make them illegal," he said.
However the ICO said making automatic marketing calls without people's consent was illegal.
[...] In October, the government announced plans to let the ICO fine company directors as well as their businesses.
"Making directors responsible will stop them avoiding fines by putting their company into liquidation," the ICO said.
According to the stories, the company "has been placed in liquidation."
(Score: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Friday May 12 2017, @01:59PM
It's not the only prosecution; they're touting it because the amount of the fine is, notionally, a record. A few others:
A Bognor Regis firm broke the law because it called people registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). IT Protect Ltd has been fined £40,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for the offence.
An ICO investigation found The Data Supply Company had sold more than 580,000 records containing people’s details. This resulted in 21,000 spam texts being sent by the firm who bought the information.
Credit broker Digitonomy Ltd has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for being responsible for millions of marketing texts sent without proper consent.
The above came up in this search:
https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/?facet_sector=Marketing [ico.org.uk]