If you hate nuisance callers and mobile spam (and, frankly, who doesn’t?), I’ve some good news for you. Last month, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) helped ban the bosses of two companies known to use illegal marketing tactics from forming new businesses.
Aaron Stalberg, managing director of The Lead Experts, received a six-year directorship disqualification, following his company’s failure to pay a £70,000 fine for making 115,000 illegal automated marketing calls. Similarly, Keith Nicholas Hancock was handed a four-year ban after his company, Lad Media, sent more than 393,000 text messages, including to people who had specifically removed their consent.
Since December, amendments to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations have meant that company bosses can now be found personally liable for abusing privacy laws. Not before time.…
