Data protection scofflaws failed to pay £2m or 68% of fines from UK watchdog
Scofflaws have failed to pay nearly £2m in fines handed out by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office over the past 18 months, according to new research.
Between January 2019 and August 2020, the ICO issued a total of £3.2m in monetary penalty notices but just £1.03m has been paid, according to research from SMS API biz The SMS Works.
When measured as a percentage of the fine amount, nuisance-call operators were the least likely to have paid their fines, with The SMS Works finding that just 13 per cent of penalties handed to such firms had been paid.
