A company that illegally sold on personal information and plagued members of the public with more than 46m automated nuisance calls relating to Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) mis-selling claims has received a record £350,000 fine.
The Information Commissioners Office (ICO), the governments data protection regulator, handed out the largest fine in its history to Prodial, singling it out as the worst case of illegal cold calling it had ever seen.
Records indicated the marketing campaign could have produced a turnover of nearly £1m. Despite the sums of money involved the company, which traded from a residential property in Brighton, has been placed into voluntary liquidation by one of its directors. The ICOs enforcement team is work…
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