UKMS Money Solutions Limited (UKMS) has been fined 80,000 quid by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after sending 1.3 million texts without customer consent, according to an ICP statement. It is the first of three of spam- and nuisance-call-related fines the ICO intends to announce this week, totaling 250,000 GBP. Nearly 1,500 complained to the ICO about the texting campaign. “UKMS should have known that the responsibility to ensure they had the right consent to send messages to people rests with them,” the ICO’s Andy Curry said. Customer complaints have helped the ICO properly crack down on text abuse, The Guardian reports. The information “enables us to execute search warrants, to drag people before the courts and to issue fines,” Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said.
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