‘Irish Times’, Littlewoods avoid emails convictions

The Irish Times and Littlewoods Ireland have avoided court convictions for breaking privacy regulations by sending customers unsolicited emails.

Following separate investigations by the office of the Data Protection Commissioner they had pleaded guilty to the offences at Dublin District Court in April.

Yesterday, Judge William Hamill noted they complied with orders made on the last date for The Irish Times Ltd to give €3,000 to suicide prevention charity Pieta House and Littlewoods to donate €5,000 to the same cause. After being furnished with the receipts, he struck out the cases.