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Businesses commonly engage data aggregators and list owners to perform direct marketing campaigns on their behalf. However, as a guideline case showed, such delegation does not relieve them of the obligation to check that recipients of unsolicited messages have given their free and informed consent.

Businesses that handle personal data but fail to take appropriate steps to guard against cyber attacks expose themselves to grave financial and reputational damage. That was certainly so in the case of an international airline whose flawed systems compromised the security of millions of its