ICO (UK) · 3 June 2021
Conservative Party
Name not published.
FineGBP10,000≈ €11,600Violation found
- Regulator
- ICO (UK)
- Decided
- 3 June 2021
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Sector
- Not given
- Regulator’s reference
- ICO- Conservative Party Case
- Fino case number
- 2021/GB/033
What happened
The UK DPA fined the Conservative Party £10,000 in relation to 1,190,281 direct marketing emails sent as a part of its Brexit campaign. In particular, the DPA held that the Conservative Party had not collected valid consent for the 51 emails sent to the complainants in violation of the PECR, which implements the e-Privacy Directive in the UK.
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Rules involved
The source doesn’t list which GDPR articles were involved.
Sources
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