Pension cold-callers fined £140,000 in ICO's biggest fine

EB Associates used lead generators to ‘try and bypass the law’, ICO says

James Phillips
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Pension cold-callers fined £140,000 in ICO's biggest fine

EB Associates Group has been fined £140,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after instigating over 107,000 cold calls about pensions.

The ICO has also banned the company from making any further illegal calls about pensions under threat of court action. Cold calling about pensions has been illegal since 2019 but EB Associates h...

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