The ICO has fined the Conservative Party £10,000 for failing to maintain accurate records about what people had consented to receive marketing communications, which resulted in 51 confirmed emails out of 1,190,280 being sent to people who did not want to receive them. The ICO recognised not all emails were in breach of PECR but had no way of confirming how many.
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