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ICO hits sole trader with £200,000 fine for sending nearly one million spam texts

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Jean Hurley

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​The penalty is for breaches of PECR which govern unsolicited electronic marketing.

​The UK’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has announced a significant fine of £200,000 ($266,340) against sole trader Bharat Singh Chand for sending almost a million unsolicited marketing text messages to the public. The messages, which focused on sensitive topics like debt solutions and energy saving grants, generated

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