The ICO has issued a fine to Morrison Supermarkets for sending marketing consent emails to over 130k email addresses where the subjects had previously opted-out of marketing.
Remember that even under the current data protection and privacy regimes you must have consent to send marketing materials. There will be no change to this with the GDPR, just the mechanism of collecting consent is stricter.
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