Jan. 12: HelloFresh fined for spam; RAF attacks Houthi sites; Open orders for the new Tiguan

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Food delivery firm HelloFresh has been fined £140,000 for a seven-month spamming campaign of 79m emails and a million texts.

Customers also did not receive enough data for their insights to be used for marketing purposes up to 24 months after their subscription was cancelled, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said.

The ICO began its investigation in March 2022 following 14 court cases filed directly with the regulator, as well as 8,729 with spam reporting service 7726. A spokesperson for HelloFresh said it has replaced its SMS and email policy.

The RAF has introduced specific measures against military installations used by Houthi rebels in Yemen, with Rishi Sunak saying the UK will “protect freedom of navigation and the flow of trade”.

This is the first time measures have been introduced against the organization since it began targeting foreign shipping in the backlogged Red Sea last year.

U. S. President Joe Biden said U. S. military forces, subsidized through the U. K. and subsidized through Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, had effectively carried out measures opposed to a number of targets in Yemen.

John Lewis Partnership has brought back former director Peter Ruis to lead the group’s branches.

The ex-Jigsaw boss will become executive director from the start of next week.

He returns after 11 years in the business, after holding positions for 8 years, and will succeed Naomi Simcock, who led the department on an interim basis for about a year after the departure of Pippa Wicks. Simcock will take on a new role as Chief Operating Officer.

The Courier threatened and lied to the BBC in 2015 ahead of a Panorama programme with a Horizon whistleblower, the public broadcaster claimed.

The BBC claimed that experts interviewed for the programme had received intimidating letters from lawyers at the Post Office, who had also sent letters to the broadcaster, threatening to sue Panorama.

According to the BBC, senior postal officials also told the outlet at the time that neither workers nor Fujitsu, which developed the Horizon software at the center of the scandal, can access the substation accounts, despite being warned four years earlier. make this possible. Swiss Post has been contacted for comment.

Microsoft is upgrading its cloud computing service to let customers store all personal data within the European Union instead of having it flow to the US where national privacy laws do not exist.

The changes apply to services including Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform and Dynamics 365, the Seattle-based technology company said.

Cloud computing companies have begun localizing data storage and processing amid increasingly stringent needs within the European Union, which is made up of 27 countries, which have strict data privacy laws.

Partners in hedge fund Odey Asset Management, which is in the process of dissolving after its founder Crispin Odey was accused of sexual misconduct, will take a stake of around £64m in its final year of trading.

Odey AM said the amount of profit that will be distributed between its 11 members had grown from £18.8m in the year to the end of April 2022 to £63.9m the following year. This will be split between the members, although not evenly. One member will be entitled to £28.6m.

In 2021, Odey found himself not guilty in a trial accusing him of indecent assault that allegedly took place in 1998. But in June, the Financial Times and Tortoise Media said they had spoken to thirteen women who said they had been abused or harassed through him. between 1998 and 2021, which he denies.

Forcing an anti-corruption watchdog to pronounce on a former minister who “consumes the maximum intimate portions of an unfortunate marsupial” on television is not a wise use of public money, its leader said.

Lord Pickles, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Professional Appointments, referred to Matt Hancock’s appearance in I’m a Celebrity. . . Get me out of here!, where the former Health Secretary ate a kangaroo penis, while he [Lord Pickles] claimed that reforming the existing regime would “make sense of the system”.

Reiterating his warning that existing regulations on post-government jobs were “not compatible with their purpose”, Lord Pickles said the planned adjustments would allow the committee to act in more complex instances that preserved the interests and integrity of the government.

Prices for Volkswagen’s new third-generation Tiguan will start from £34,060 and orders for the new SUV are now open, the carmaker said.

The new generation of Tiguan brings wonderful advances over its predecessor, a sleek new design that incorporates complex LED lighting, with soft strips at the front and rear.

The interior sees most of the changes, with a variety of next-gen touchscreens measuring up to 15 inches and a smart rotating OLED that can be used to adjust functions such as driving force and volume settings. The first deliveries are expected by the middle of the year.

The FTSE closed 75. 17 points lower to end the day at 7,576. 59. The Cac 40 is down 38. 46 points at 7,387. 62, the Dax is down 142. 78 points at 16,547. 03, but the Dow Jones is up 15. 29 points at 37,711. 02.

Today we will see a lot of clouds in England and Wales, but there will be sunny periods in Northern Ireland and Scotland, according to BBC Weather. Then the weather will be cloudy and windy with occasional showers in north-west Scotland in the afternoon.

On Saturday the clouds will be variable, but the weather will be clearer in the south of Scotland and the northeast of England. Most of the space will be dry, although there will be some showers in the north of Scotland and, in the morning, in Northern Ireland and the northwest of England.

John has been with Car Dealer since 2013 after spending 25 years in the newspaper industry as a reporter then a sub-editor/assistant chief sub-editor on regional and national titles. John is chief sub-editor in the editorial department, working on Car Dealer, as well as handling social media.

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