Plan for nuisance calls crackdown
Posted: 30 Mar 2014, 08:38Ministers are drawing up plans to make it easier to penalise telemarketing companies that plague members of the public with unwanted calls.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller is to launch a consultation this year on lowering the threshold for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to take action against offending companies.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is also consulting on hefty fines for claims management companies that exploit information from unsolicited calls and texts.
Despite an increase in the maximum fine it can impose to £500,000, the ICO still received 120,310 complaints relating to unsolicited marketing calls made between April and November last year.
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Culture Secretary Maria Miller is to launch a consultation this year on lowering the threshold for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to take action against offending companies.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is also consulting on hefty fines for claims management companies that exploit information from unsolicited calls and texts.
Despite an increase in the maximum fine it can impose to £500,000, the ICO still received 120,310 complaints relating to unsolicited marketing calls made between April and November last year.
Read more
http://www.sundaypost.com/tv-showbiz/pl ... n-1.293679