£50,000
Penalty imposed
PECR 2003
24 April 2025
Date on the register
PECR 2003
Law relied on
PECR regulation 20, PECR regulation 21
General business
Sector
20 actions on the register
In one line
The ICO fined Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U £50,000 on 24 April 2025 under the UK marketing rules in PECR. This is an ICO penalty, not a GDPR fine.
01The record
- Organisation named
- Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U
- Action
- Monetary penalty
- Date published
- 24 April 2025
- Register year
- 2025
- Law relied on
- PECR 2003
- Provisions cited
- PECR regulation 20, PECR regulation 21, PECR regulation 24
- Penalty
- £50,000
- Sector on the register
- General business
- ICO register reference
- 74609
- Register status
- Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
- Notice documents
- 1 PDF published by the ICO
- Sector share of register
- 20 of 216 actions (9%)
- Actions published that year
- 31
- Actions under this law
- 87
- Position on the register
- 173rd of 216, oldest first
- Published the same day
- This entry alone
- Rank by penalty size
- 35th of 44 penalties with a published figure
- Reduced for early payment
- £40,000 if paid by the date in the notice
- Calls or messages recorded
- 194,110
- Complaints recorded
- 21
- Entries for this organisation
- 2 on this register
02What happened, and where it sits
Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U received an ICO monetary penalty on 24 April 2025. The Commissioner acted under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, citing PECR regulation 20, PECR regulation 21 and PECR regulation 24. 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 £50,000. That is the 35th largest of the 44 penalties on this register with a published figure and the 9th largest of the 10 recorded in 2025. The notice offers £40,000 for payment by the date it sets, the standard 20% early-payment reduction the ICO applies to its penalty notices. 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: 194,110 marketing calls or messages and 21 complaints. Those figures are the ICO's, taken from the published notice for this action.
Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U is filed under General business, which accounts for 20 of the 216 actions on the register (9%). In 2025 the ICO published 31 enforcement actions in total, 14 of them monetary penalties. 87 actions on the register name PECR 2003.
Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 173rd of 216 actions on the register and the 13th of 20 in General business. Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U appears 2 times on this register: monetary penalty on 24 April 2025 and enforcement notice on 24 April 2025. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 2.7 MB in total: "Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U monetary penalty notice". It is the authority for everything on this page.
03The ICO's own account
Between 9 January 2023 to 9 October 2023, there were 194,110 unsolicited direct marketing calls made to subscribers who were registered with the TPS and who had not notified Darian Bishop that they were willing to receive such calls. This resulted in 21 complaints which were submitted to the Commissioner and the TPS.
Mr Bishop first came to the attention of the Commissioner in connection with the Commissioner's wider enquiries relating to an increase in complaints concerning the energy and home improvements sector.
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.
Published notice
04Other entries for Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darian Bishop trading as ECO4U | 24 Apr 2025 | Enforcement notice | PECR 2003 | - |
05Nearest entries on the register
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| TMAC Ltd | 3 Feb 2026 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £100,000 |
| Elderly Aids Limited | 6 Aug 2026 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £190,000 |
| 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.
An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2025/05/darian-bishop-trading-as-eco4u-mpn/.
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