29 million advertising text messages sent to data subjects without consent
The UK’s data protection authority, the ICO, received 13 complaints about unsolicited SMS advertisements related to the marketing of car insurance and, as a result, launched the investigation into Tempcover Ltd.
Following the investigation, the ICO found that Tempcover Ltd had sent a total of 29,970,419 promotional text messages between May 26, 2019 and May 26, 2020 without the consent of the individuals concerned.
Entscheidungsdatum:
07.02.2022
Land:
United Kingdom
Art des Verstoßes:
Illegal data processing
Betroffene Datensätze:
29970419
Waren sensible Daten betroffen?:
No
verhängte Geldstrafe:
€ 100,372,-
Violation of GDPR Paragraph:
unknown
Quelle:
Fine notice from the ICO