Ticketek fined $500,000 for repeated breaches of spam laws
E-commerce Online ticketing company Ticketek has paid a fine worth $515,040 for sending 98,000 spam texts and emails last year, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). Ticketek breached anti-spam laws by sending 41,000 marketing texts and emails without the consent of recipients and another 57,000 to people who had previously unsubscribed. The firm committed a similar violation in 2019 for which it received a formal warning from the ACMA. “Australians are fed up with these types of…