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5 days agoICO fines sole trader for allegedly sending 1M spam texts
A sole trader was fined £200,000 for sending 966,449 unsolicited debt-related texts from 383 mobile numbers without valid consent.
Robocalls to U.S. consumers fell 4% between July and August, and 6.1% over the 12 months ending in August, according to YouMail's latest Robocall Index report. For the month, robocall activity averaged 133.9 million robocalls per day and 1,550 robocalls per second, down 4% from July's average of 144 million robocalls per day and 1,666 robocalls per second.