In March 2005 summonses were issued in respect of
\nfive offences and 4\u2019s A Fortune Limited entered
\nguilty pleas in July 2005. At the final hearing at
\nCourt 54 on 1September 2005, 4\u2019s A Fortune was
\nconvicted of committing five offences of failing to
\ncomply with Regulation 13(1)(b) and fined \u20ac300 out
\nof a maximum of \u20ac3,000 on each count, plus costs
\nof \u20ac1,000. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, had all 165,000 people complained 4’s A Fortune would have been out of pocket to the tune of \u20ac4,950,000 in fines. Risky business, phone or text spam. Come on people, start complaining<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commissioner runs through in some detail the story of the first successful prosecution under the EU Regulations contained in Statutory Instrument 535\/2003. Two key points: It is important to note that although I had evidence that the campaign involved the contacting of 165,000 subscribers, I can only prosecute in those cases where there is no consent from the recipient to receiving such calls. Therefore, I am restricted to prosecution in relation to specific complaints from individuals. and In March 2005 summonses were issued in respect of five offences and 4\u2019s A Fortune Limited entered guilty pleas in July 2005. At the final hearing at Court 54 on 1September 2005, 4\u2019s A Fortune was convicted of committing five offences of failing to comply with Regulation 13(1)(b) and fined \u20ac300 out of a maximum of \u20ac3,000 on each count, plus costs of \u20ac1,000. So, had all 165,000 people complained 4’s A Fortune would have been out of pocket to the tune of \u20ac4,950,000 in fines. Risky business, phone or text spam. Come on people, start complaining.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[92,91,88,45,90,19,93],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-rights","category-general","tag-annual-report","tag-data-protection","tag-data-protection-commissioner","tag-digital-rights-ireland","tag-dpa","tag-ireland","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}