Mycar Tyre & Auto fined $1m for marketing email spam

Mycar Tyre & Auto has been fined more than $1 million for failing to provide customers an unsubscribe function on its marketing emails and text messages that were sent over a span of several months.

An investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found the company sent more than 1.45 million texts and emails without a functioning unsubscribe facility from January to August 2022.

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