Eight men have been found guilty in the largest investigation ever undertaken by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
A former sales consultant has been fined after pleading guilty to unlawfully retaining and selling thousands of customer records from the car leasing company he worked for in Hertfordshire.
We Buy Any Car has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office after sending 191 million emails and 3.6 million “nuisance texts”.
After initial panic and confusion, has the industry got to grips with data collection?
An accident repair centre worker who stole customer data from a previous employer has been ordered to pay £33,500 eight months after an Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) led prosecution saw him jailed for six months.
Car dealers should remind their staff that a breach of customer data protection legislation could result in a prison term, Dragon 2000 has said.
The Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO) first prosecution under the Computer Misuse Act has resulted in a six month jail sentence for a former employee of Nationwide Accident Repair Services (NARS).
The fees for businesses wanting to process customer data under the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been published.
Car dealers are being advised to consider 12 important stages now in ensuring their use of customer information complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with a new Information Commissioner’s Office guide.
The director of a claims management company has been disqualified as a director for seven years after the Ministry of Justice deemed a million of his business’s 6.4 million automated marketing calls were “nuisance calls”.
The Information Commissioner’s Office has handed used car retailer Concept Car Credit Limited a £40,000 after sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited marketing text messages.
Honda Motor Europe has been fined £13,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after breaching data protection laws with almost 290,000 “illegal” marketing emails.
A search warrant was executed yesterday at a property in London as part of an investigation into the illegal access of customer details from Nationwide Accident Repair Services.
