The Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) has complained that the Data Protection Act (DPA) will stop the junk mailers – the people who send out millions of junk mail adverts every year (the industry name for it is direct mail) – from doing their job
Updates to the DPA means that marketing people can no longer use the electoral register as means to send our huge volumes of marketing material.
With no hint of irony the ISBA stated that the electoral register allows to be environmentally friendly. As it allows them to target people (rather than empty address), and if they can no longer use the electoral register they may get a few wrong houses.
One could argue that sending out millions of unwanted letters with a very low success rate(1% to 2%) was not the most environmentally friendly method of advertising in the world.
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