{"id":2781,"date":"2021-09-10T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T08:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/nuisance-calls-could-lead-to-multimillion-pound-fines-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T08:40:02","slug":"nuisance-calls-could-lead-to-multimillion-pound-fines-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/nuisance-calls-could-lead-to-multimillion-pound-fines-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuisance calls could lead to multimillion-pound fines in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers considering bringing punishment in line with GDPR, which can issue fine of up to \u00a317.5m<\/p>\n<p>Multimillion-pound fines could be imposed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2018\/sep\/08\/uk-ban-on-nuisance-calls-comes-into-force-ppi-personal-injury-claims\">nuisance or fraudulent calls<\/a> and texts under a proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/aug\/26\/uk-to-overhaul-privacy-rules-in-post-brexit-departure-from-gdpr\">overhaul of the UK\u2019s data rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Companies behind nuisance communications can be fined \u00a3500,000 by the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) but ministers are considering bringing the punishment in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which can issue a fine of up to \u00a317.5m or 4% of global turnover.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/10\/nuisance-calls-could-lead-to-multimillion-pound-fines-in-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7bbdcfbf9e5dc2ed9094816428de9c68fa27ae24\/0_36_1380_828\/master\/1380.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0ac5d3634586c411b047abe5bdf0576e\" title=\"Nuisance calls could lead to multimillion-pound fines in UK\" \/>Ministers considering bringing punishment in line with GDPR, which can issue fine of up to \u00a317.5m<br \/>\nMultimillion-pound fines could be imposed for nuisance or fraudulent calls and texts under a proposed overhaul of the UK\u2019s data rules.<br \/>\nCompanies behind nuisance communications can be fined \u00a3500,000 by the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) but ministers are considering bringing the punishment in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which can issue a fine of up to \u00a317.5m or 4% of global turnover. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers considering bringing punishment in line with GDPR, which can issue fine of up to \u00a317.5m Multimillion-pound fines could be imposed for nuisance or fraudulent calls and texts under a proposed overhaul of the UK\u2019s data rules. Companies behind nuisance communications can be fined \u00a3500,000 by the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) but ministers are considering &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/nuisance-calls-could-lead-to-multimillion-pound-fines-in-uk\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nuisance calls could lead to multimillion-pound fines in UK<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}