None
Financial penalty
Monetary penalty, 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 monetary penalty 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
- Monetary penalty
- Date published
- 26 October 2023
- Register year
- 2023
- Law relied on
- PECR 2003
- Provisions cited
- PECR regulation 22
- Penalty
- Not stated in the published entry
- Sector on the register
- General business
- ICO register reference
- 17321
- 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
- 99th 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 monetary penalty on 26 October 2023. The Commissioner acted under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, citing PECR regulation 22. A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable. PECR is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR, so this is an ICO penalty under the marketing rules and not a GDPR fine.
The register entry for this penalty does not state the sum, and no single unambiguous figure could be read from the published notice, so no amount is shown here. The linked notice is the authority for the amount.
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, 22 of them monetary penalties. 87 actions on the register name PECR 2003.
Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 99th of 216 actions on the register and the 6th 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: monetary penalty on 26 October 2023 and enforcement notice on 26 October 2023. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 535 KB in total: "Argentum Data Solutions Mpn 20231026". 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.
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.
What a monetary penalty does
A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable.
Published notice
- PDFArgentum Data Solutions Mpn 20231026(535 KB)
04Other entries for Argentum Data Solutions Ltd
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentum Data Solutions Ltd | 26 Oct 2023 | Enforcement notice | PECR 2003 | - |
05Published the same day
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) | 26 Oct 2023 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
06Nearest entries on the register
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Money Bubble Ltd MPN | 12 Dec 2024 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £120,000 |
| AFK Letters Co Ltd | 27 Mar 2025 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £90,000 |
| Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U | 24 Apr 2025 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £50,000 |
| TMAC Ltd | 3 Feb 2026 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £100,000 |
| Elderly Aids Limited | 6 Aug 2026 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £190,000 |
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How a fine is calculated
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The ICO profile
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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-mpn/.
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