The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office has fined telephone services company True Telecom 85,000 GBP for breaching the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations by making illegal nuisance calls. Despite a warning from the ICO, the company continued to call registrants of the Telephone Preference Service and people who had specifically indicated they wished to not be contacted. It is illegal to call numbers registered on the TPS unless an individual has expressed consent. The ICO has also fined Cab Guru’s taxi booking app 45,000 GBP for breaking the law by sending unsolicited text messages. While the consortium admits to a one-day text marketing campaign using numbers provided by five of its shareholder firms, they could not provide any evidence of customer consent to being contacted by Cab Guru. 
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