None

Financial penalty

Enforcement notice, no fine

26 October 2023

Date on the register

PECR 2003

Law relied on

PECR regulation 22

General business

Sector

20 actions on the register

In one line

The ICO issued Argentum Data Solutions Ltd with a enforcement notice on 26 October 2023 under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. No financial penalty attaches to it.

01The record

Organisation named: Argentum Data Solutions Ltd
Action: Enforcement notice
Date published: 26 October 2023
Register year: 2023
Law relied on: PECR 2003
Provisions cited: PECR regulation 22
Penalty: None (not a financial penalty)
Sector on the register: General business
ICO register reference: 17320
Register status: Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
Notice documents: 1 PDF published by the ICO
Sector share of register: 20 of 216 actions (9%)
Actions published that year: 80
Actions under this law: 87
Position on the register: 98th of 216, oldest first
Published the same day: 2 actions dated 26 October 2023
Entries for this organisation: 2 on this register

02What happened, and where it sits

Argentum Data Solutions Ltd received an ICO enforcement notice on 26 October 2023. The Commissioner acted under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, citing PECR regulation 22. An order to act. An enforcement notice requires the organisation to take, or stop taking, specified steps by a deadline, and failure to comply is itself an offence. PECR is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR, so this is an ICO penalty under the marketing rules and not a GDPR fine.

No sum is attached to this action. Enforcement notices are corrective, not financial, which is why Argentum Data Solutions Ltd appears on the register without a figure beside it.

Argentum Data Solutions Ltd is filed under General business, which accounts for 20 of the 216 actions on the register (9%). In 2023 the ICO published 80 enforcement actions in total, 21 of them enforcement notices. 87 actions on the register name PECR 2003.

Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 98th of 216 actions on the register and the 5th of 20 in General business. The ICO published 2 actions on 26 October 2023, so this one was part of a batch: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) (reprimand). Argentum Data Solutions Ltd appears 2 times on this register: enforcement notice on 26 October 2023 and monetary penalty on 26 October 2023. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 363 KB in total: "Argentum Data Solutions enforcement notice". It is the authority for everything on this page.

03The ICO's own account

Between 1 January 2021 and 31 January 2022 there were a total of 2,330,423 SMS sent without consent. 24,309 were sent by ADS directly and it allowed its lines to be used by third parties to send the remaining 2,306,114. These messages were sent in breach of regulation 22 of PECR. ADS came to our attention following a review of complaints received by the 7726 spam reporting tool.

Quoted from the ICO's published register entry (ico.org.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0.

The law behind this action

PECR 2003

PECR governs electronic marketing, cookies and communications-service security. It is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR: an action taken under PECR is not a GDPR fine, and the register pages here never describe it as one.

All 87 register actions under PECR 2003

What a enforcement notice does

An order to act. An enforcement notice requires the organisation to take, or stop taking, specified steps by a deadline, and failure to comply is itself an offence.

Published notice

PDFArgentum Data Solutions enforcement notice(363 KB)

04Other entries for Argentum Data Solutions Ltd

1 further entry on the register
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
Argentum Data Solutions Ltd	26 Oct 2023	Monetary penalty	PECR 2003	-	General business

05Published the same day

1 other action carry the date 26 October 2023
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)	26 Oct 2023	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Criminal justice

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Money Bubble Ltd EN	12 Dec 2024	Enforcement notice	PECR 2003	-	General business
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TMAC Ltd	3 Feb 2026	Enforcement notice	PECR 2003	-	General business
Elderly Aids Limited	6 Aug 2026	Enforcement notice	PECR 2003	-	General business
Argentum Data Solutions Ltd	26 Oct 2023	Monetary penalty	PECR 2003	-	General business

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Provenance and independence

Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.

An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2023/10/argentum-data-solutions-ltd-en/.