Keeping up the PECR: ICO fines two marketing text pests £330k for sending 2.6 million messages

Leads Works Ltd and Valca Vehicle and Life Cover Agency tried to exploit household finance fears in lockdown, says data watchdog

Two businesses that dispatched more than 2.6 million nuisance text messages seeking to exploit lower household incomes during Britain's first lockdown are nursing a combined financial penalty of 330,000 from the UK's data watchdog....