2013-07-30

The ICO agree, excellent

The ICO have a complaint form for spam, here.

I was fooled by question 2c which referenced waiting 28 days after asking someone to stop. What I had missed was that question 2a says to skip that if you have no relationship with the sender.

The ICO sent a helpful response to my query and explained this. I am impressed.

They also stated, very very clearly :-

"Firstly, I would confirm that your understanding of Regulation 22 is correct; that is, if a company sends an unsolicited marketing email to an individual subscriber without their prior consent and/or without satisfying the conditions of the soft opt-in, then they will be breaching the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations."

You don't get clearer than that - thank you ICO. I will be quoting that in future letters and emails to spammers.

2 comments:

  1. Why the ICO can't have a web form and insist on Word/PDF documents, I do not know. I wonder if somebody were to make a "Web form -> PDF -> auto submit to ICO" service whether they'll get enough complaints to actually do something about spam.

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  2. Impressive... my experience of complaining to the ICO is that they sit on it for 3 months, then send a letter saying they haven't forgotten and apologise for the delay, then sit on it for a further 3 months before replying saying that they have sent the offender a "strongly worded letter"...

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