Organisations must comply with strict rules if they want to send electronic direct marketing mail to people. Many organisations send out legitimate ‘service’ emails, but some choose to add advertising, marketing or promotional material to their supposed ‘service’ emails in an attempt to circumvent the direct marketing rules. Of course, it doesn’t quite work like that and mistakes can be costly…
Month: June 2021
I sent a UK company a GDPR erasure request, but they demanded that I email them a copy of my driving licence before actioning my request. Here’s what happened when I challenged their intrusive, unsecure and likely unlawful demand…
ICO orders Highways England to provide information on the number of cameras used to enforce the Red X following FOI request, and the figures are worrying…