ICO takes action against telemarketer for unsolicited marketing calls

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The Information Commissioner's Office ('ICO') announced, on 26 November 2020, that a director of AMS Marketing Limited, a telephone marketing company, who made over 75,500 unsolicited marketing calls, was banned by the Insolvency Service for six years, following the receipt of 71 complaints by the Telephone Preference Service ('TPS') and a further 31 complaints by the ICO. In particular, the ICO highlighted that AMS Marketing should have used the TPS list before making these marketing calls to remove the numbers of individuals who had elected not to receive unsolicited calls. Furthermore, the ICO highlighted that a fine of £100,000 is outstanding which would be issued by the ICO, and that the director was disqualified after they did not dispute that they had caused their company to breach Regulation 21 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 in making the marketing calls.

You can read the press release here.

 

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