ICO (UK) · 1 March 2021
Leads Work Limited
About: Consent, Unlawful processing
- Regulator
- ICO (UK)
- Decided
- 1 March 2021
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sector
- Not given
- Regulator’s reference
- Monetary penalty Leads Work Limited
- Fino case number
- 2021/GB/025
What happened
The ICO (International Commissioner's Officer) has fined Leads Works Ltd 250000 GBP (€291,237) for sending more than 2.6 million nuisance and unlawful direct marketing text messages to customers without their valid consent. Leads Works Ltd has continued to send significant numbers of marketing texts to individuals throughout, and since, the course of the Commissioner's investigation, incurring a substantial amount of complaints.
Summary from GDPRhub (noyb), written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 4Definitions4(11)Read →
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processing6(1)(a)Read →
- Art. 7Conditions for consent7(1) · 7(2)Read →
- Consent
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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