Carphone Warehouse among firms fined for ‘spam’ marketing

The Carphone Warehouse company has been fined €6,000 for sending unsolicited “spam” marketing text messages to two customers.

The phone chain, along with Valterous Ltd trading as the Therapie Clinic, pleaded guilty to breaking data protection regulations at Dublin District Court.

Assistant data protection commissioner Tony Delaney told Sophie More-O’Ferrall, prosecuting, that in March last year, a man had received two promotional texts from Carphone Warehouse.