Privacy

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New EU Directive on consumer rights

Chris Grant (he/him) December 08, 2019 0 Comments
The European Council has adopted a new Directive designed to enhance consumer protection, with the focus on the internet and online transactions. Highlights include: enhanced harmonisation and streamlining of some of the criteria used to determine the level of penalties for infringements of EU consumer law; a right to individual remedies for consumers when they are harmed by unfair commercial...
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Instagram unveils new tools to increase safety & access to information

Tom Furmanski September 02, 2018 0 Comments
Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app, is introducing three new features designed to provide more transparency and security to its users. The plan includes the introduction of a new section, "About this Account", which will provide more details about accounts with large follower counts. Access to the blue badge verification process is also on the cards for all users, and Instagram is...
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O’Brien Media has (you guessed it) a new Privacy Policy

Tom Furmanski May 24, 2018 0 Comments
I'll keep this short, as you've probably already received no less than 50 of these privacy policy update notifications in the last week alone. We've updated our Privacy Policy, effective May 24, 2018. These changes were made primarily in preparation for the EU's new data privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Nothing is changing about how your information is processed....
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Customiser updates, code checking and GDPR features in WordPress 4.9.6

Jenny O'Brien May 18, 2018 0 Comments
WordPress 4.9.6 features a much improved Customiser workflow with design drafts, locking, scheduling, and preview links. What’s more, code syntax highlighting and error checking has arrived, and will make for a clean and smooth site building experience even easier. Finally, if all that wasn’t pretty great, WordPress has got a great new Gallery widget and improvements to theme browsing and...
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