Today I’ve written about how we will be using cookies on the gov.uk beta website. An extract is below, and you can read the full entry on the Government Digital Service blog. The use of cookies on websites has become an increasingly hot topic over the past few months. A new EU law – specifically [...]
Author Archive: Dafydd Vaughan
Helping to build a single domain for government
September 5th, 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
Just under two and a half years ago I joined CF Labs – a new team based within Consumer Focus with a remit to build useful online tools and make data more useful and accessible. Over that time, we’ve worked to make product recall information more useful and helped to make it easier to reduce [...]
An update on the EU cookie law
July 27th, 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
“The law was meant to protect the privacy of people using the Internet. To accomplish this, the EU made over 90% of websites illegal” – Oliver Emberton, silktide. Back in May I wrote about the new EU law on cookies that came into effect this year and will be enforced from May 2012. On Monday, [...]
Opening up rail performance data
July 12th, 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
I admit it; I’m a bit of a train buff. I don’t stand around at the end of platforms recording the numbers of trains, but I do like to know what is going on and how everything works. I’ve been a regular user of trains for nearly 10 years. When I was in college, I [...]
The last half of 2010 (Part 3 – December)
January 26th, 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the third and final part in a recap of everything that happened in the last half of 2010. Part 1 covered the July, August and September including the launch of a redesigned CF Labs website. The second part covered the launch of the new website for Consumer Focus and the second phase of [...]
The last half of 2010 (Part 2 – October & November)
January 19th, 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the second part in a recap of everything that happened in the last half of 2010. Part 1 covered July, August & September. This part looks at October and November. October 2010 In October we completed the second phase of the new Consumer Focus website. Earlier in the year we made the move [...]
The last half of 2010 (Part 1 – July, August & September)
January 17th, 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Whenever there has been an extended gap in my blogging I try and find something to get it going again. It usually involves some kind of recap of the missing months to try and fill in the gap. This time is different only in the sheer amount of things that have happened. Over the last [...]
Costs of government websites
June 28th, 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
On Friday, the Government announced that it is intending to close up to 75% of the 820 public sector websites it has identified. The announcement coincided with a report from the Central Office of Information (COI) outlining statistics for central government websites. These figures show that 47 websites have cost taxpayers over £127 million in [...]