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 [...]
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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 [...]
Hacks and Hackers working together
January 31st, 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Most people will be aware of the concept of a hack day – a number of designers and/or developers getting together for a day to build “cool stuff”. These sorts of days happen on a regular basis and quite a few interesting projects have come out of them. On Friday, Charlie and I attended a [...]
Open Government & Open Data
December 15th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
It has been exactly nine months since I started my job at Consumer Focus Labs. In this time, we’ve published our Recalled Products website, some data on the Digital Switchover in Wales, been contributing to a blog following our attempts to get data out of Tesco and are producing our new StayPrivate.org website. Sometimes I [...]
Opening up community information
October 27th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
When you move into a new area, how do you find out about the community you are going to be living in. How do you find out about the community groups, the local services, the bus times. Some of the more technology savvy amongst us might look towards the web in the hope that the information is [...]
Setting the Post Code free…
October 6th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
The Royal Mail is well known in the UK for being an outdated organisation that is struggling to modernise, is regularly hit by crippling strikes and always seems to be losing money (despite the fact they made a profit recently?!). However yesterday they took on a new tact: they appear to have decided to bring [...]
Government plans database for all emails
May 20th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
What is the government thinking? The BBC and The Times are reporting that the Home Office are planning to put together a national database of all phone and email communications. It is another of the schemes proposed to combat terrorism and improve national security – but like all the others, it is just a disaster [...]