Aisling Byrne is partner in A&L Goodbody's Employment & Incentives group in Belfast and has over 20 years' experience in advising on employment and equality law. Aisling advises on contentious employment litigation, employment aspects of commercial transactions and procurement. Aisling is qualified to practice in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and she is a qualified mediator. She also specialises in data protection law and she has both Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) qualifications. She regularly delivers training to businesses on GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 and she advises on a broad spectrum of data protection issues including data breaches, data protection impact assessments, data subject access requests and data sharing agreements.
Aisling Byrne, Partner, and Emma Woods, Solicitor, from A&L Goodbody LLP update us on the latest discussion surrounding nuisance calls.
The current maximum fine of £500,000 for nuisance calls and texts is clearly not acting as a sufficient deterrent. The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has estimated that some 41 million people in the UK may have received nuisance calls, text messages and emails during the summer of 2022 alone. In a bid to tackle unsolicited calls, the current draft of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill ("the Bill") will increase fines for nuisance calls and texts to GDPR and Data Protection Act levels, which is either 4% of global turnover or £17.5m, whichever is greater.
In the meantime, the ICO
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