The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Simply Connecting Ltd £40,000 after the company sent 441,830 unsolicited SMS text messages in violation of regulations 22 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR).
Read the monetary penalty notice.
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