The ICO has fined an online pharmacy company that not only sold on user data without proper consent, it also made some astonishingly crass choices of customers to sell it to, including a lottery company.
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Hotels that block personal Wi-Fi hotspots will get busted, says FCC
So ends Marriott’s campaign to block guests’ hotspots and force guests to pay for its own Wi-Fi, even though they don’t threaten security. 
Marriott’s stopped blocking your Wi-Fi hotspots
Post-big-bucks fine, Marriott has now stopped blocking personal Wi-Fi devices at hotels.
Online casino fined for emailing promotions to “self-excluded” gamblers
After gamblers added themselves to a voluntary “self-exclusion” list, they continued to receive promotional offers from the online gambling arm of casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corp. Now the company has to pay a fine.
STD dating site PositiveSingles.com faces $16.5 million fine for sharing user profiles
The dating site for people with STDs promised “100%” anonymity but used the anonymous claimant’s profile on affiliated niche dating sites such as AIDSDate, Herpesinmouth, ChristianSafeHaven, MeetBlackPOZ and PositivelyKinky.