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26 June 2019 - Sumo Power Pays $46,200 Telemarketing Infringement NoticeSumo Power, an electricity, gas and internet provider, has paid a $46,200 infringement notice issued by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for failing to produce evidence that it had obtained consent to make telemarketing calls to telephone numbers registered on the Do Not Call Register.
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27 May 2019 - ACMA Issues Telstra Formal Warning for Mobile Phone Base Station DeploymentThe Australian Communications and Media Authority issued a formal warning to Telstra for failing to comply with the Mobile Phone Base Station Deployment Industry Code by not complying with its consultation plan, not sending a letter containing specified information to all interested and affected parties and not acknowledging a complaint within the required timeframe.
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9 April 2019 - ACMA Institutes Legal Proceedings Against Solar TelemarketerThe Australian Media and Communications Authority instituted legal proceedings against Balaska Pty Ltd being a solar business and V Marketing Pty Ltd being a call centre alleging that V Marketing Pty Ltd made telemarketing calls to numbers on the Do Not Call Register at the request of Balaska Pty Ltd in breach of the Do Not Call Register Act 2006 (Cth).
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29 March 2019 - ACCC Releases Draft Consumer Data Right RulesThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission released for public comment draft rules for the Consumer Data Right which will initially allow individuals to obtain access to their banking data and have it transferred to other service providers in the banking sector, for example, providers of comparison services or financial advice.
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13 February 2019 - Consumer Data Right Bill 2019The Treasury Laws Amendment (Consumer Data Right) Bill 2019 (Cth) was introduced into the House of Representatives to create the Consumer Data Right which will provide individuals with a right to access specified data held about services provided to them by businesses and authorise them to direct the businesses to provide this data to accredited third parties including banks, telecommunications providers, energy companies and companies providing comparison services.
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15 January 2019 - ACMA Issues Infringement Notices of $8,400 for telemarketingThe Australian Communications and Media Authority issued infringement notices of $8,400 to Primus Telecommunications Pty Ltd and iSelect LImited and a formal warning to Dodo Services Pty Ltd for making telemarketing calls to consumers after they had withdrawn their consent where their telephone numbers were listed on the Do Not Call Register.
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