His Majesty’s Treasury’s (HMT) consultation
‘Ban on cold calling for consumer financial services and products’ has been responded to by the ICO.

Read the ICO response here, especially if you don’t know of the PECR.

Once has to chuckle a little, as the ICO response shows, The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR) and GDPR already prohibit most cold calling.

The PECR is only 20 years old !

The problem is few marketeers have heard of the PECR and others just ignore the regulations. Consequently they continue to break the law. The proposed new legislations is designed to make the offence more prominent and close what small gaps that remain

Either way, Concrew Training’s course on the PECR is kept fully up to date and helps organisations of all types stay legal.