£100,000
Penalty imposed
PECR 2003
3 February 2026
Date on the register
PECR 2003
Law relied on
PECR regulation 21, PECR regulation 24
General business
Sector
20 actions on the register
In one line
The ICO fined TMAC Ltd £100,000 on 3 February 2026 under the UK marketing rules in PECR. This is an ICO penalty, not a GDPR fine.
01The record
- Organisation named
- TMAC Ltd
- Action
- Monetary penalty
- Date published
- 3 February 2026
- Register year
- 2026
- Law relied on
- PECR 2003
- Provisions cited
- PECR regulation 21, PECR regulation 24, PECR regulation 26
- Penalty
- £100,000
- Sector on the register
- General business
- ICO register reference
- 86327
- Register status
- Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
- Notice documents
- 3 PDFs published by the ICO
- Sector share of register
- 20 of 216 actions (9%)
- Actions published that year
- 21
- Actions under this law
- 87
- Position on the register
- 198th of 216, oldest first
- Published the same day
- This entry alone
- Rank by penalty size
- 25th of 44 penalties with a published figure
- Calls or messages recorded
- 260,332
- Entries for this organisation
- 2 on this register
02What happened, and where it sits
TMAC Ltd received an ICO monetary penalty on 3 February 2026. The Commissioner acted under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, citing PECR regulation 21, PECR regulation 24 and PECR regulation 26. 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 penalty is £100,000. That is the 25th largest of the 44 penalties on this register with a published figure and the 8th largest of the 8 recorded in 2026. PECR penalties are capped at £500,000, so the figure sits against that ceiling rather than the UK GDPR maximum.
The notice puts numbers on the contravention: 260,332 marketing calls or messages. Those figures are the ICO's, taken from the published notice for this action.
TMAC Ltd is filed under General business, which accounts for 20 of the 216 actions on the register (9%). In 2026 the ICO published 21 enforcement actions in total, 10 of them monetary penalties. 87 actions on the register name PECR 2003.
Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 198th of 216 actions on the register and the 16th of 20 in General business. TMAC Ltd appears 2 times on this register: monetary penalty on 3 February 2026 and enforcement notice on 3 February 2026. The ICO publishes 3 documents for this action, 4.0 MB in total: "TMAC Ltd Monetary Penalty Notice", "TMAC Ltd enforcement notice" and "Birmingham-based pendant alarm company fined £100,000 for making unsolicited marketing calls". They are the authority for everything on this page.
03The ICO's own account
TMAC contravened regulations 21 and 24 of PECR and the ICO issued a monetary penalty of £100,000 and an enforcement notice.
Between 8 February 2024 and 24 September 2024, TMAC used a public telecommunications service for the purposes of making 260,332 unsolicited calls for direct marketing purposes to subscribers where the number allocated to the subscriber in respect of the called line was a number listed on the register of numbers kept by the Commissioner in accordance with regulation 26, contrary to regulation 21(1)(b) of PECR.
TMAC also failed, as required by regulation 24 of PECR, to provide the recipient of the calls with the particulars specified at regulation 24(2) of PECR.
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.
04Other entries for TMAC Ltd
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TMAC Ltd | 3 Feb 2026 | Enforcement notice | PECR 2003 | - |
05Nearest entries on the register
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elderly Aids Limited | 6 Aug 2026 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £190,000 |
| Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U | 24 Apr 2025 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £50,000 |
| AFK Letters Co Ltd | 27 Mar 2025 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £90,000 |
| Money Bubble Ltd MPN | 12 Dec 2024 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £120,000 |
| Argentum Data Solutions Ltd | 26 Oct 2023 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | - |
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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.
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