The Information Commissioner's Office has an income of about £62m per year. I receive about 1000 spam emails a year - most are from anonymous foreign actors, but a significant proportion are from registered UK businesses who are flouting the rules. As a point of comparison, in the past year the ICO have taken "enforcement action" against just 2 organisations with respect to email marketing: Join the Triboo Limited, and Monetise Media Limited. In both cases, the organisations were sent ...
