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Posts Tagged ‘StayPrivate.org’

Website outage

2 May 2011 by . 2 Comments.

Late last night all CF Labs sites were taken offline following a serious hardware failure at our remote hosting centre. Our supplier has worked to replace the faulty equipment and bring our services back online.  This work was completed at around 2.15pm this afternoon.  There are however a few outstanding issues with some of our websites: [...]

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StayPrivate.org – keeping your data secure

28 January 2011 by . No Comments.

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Today is European Privacy and Data Protection Day. It’s a day for governments, businesses and campaign bodies to promote the importance of keeping control of your personal information. This makes today a great chance to talk about how StayPrivate.org protects the information you give to us. Data encryption When you sign up to StayPrivate.org you [...]

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StayPrivate.org v2

26 January 2011 by . 2 Comments.

The second version of the StayPrivate.org service was released yesterday. v2 It contains significant enhancements to v1 which are detailed below. It seems like a while since the heady days of June 2010 when the website fell over following unexpected mainstream media coverage on version 1 launch day. Since then we’ve racked up a substantial [...]

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StayPrivate.org Website Maintenance

21 January 2011 by . No Comments.

What is happening? We will be upgrading and testing the StayPrivate.org website on Tuesday 25th January. The site may be temporarily unavailable while the work is carried out, although we will endeavour to keep interruptions to an absolute minimum. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. More Detail We will be testing [...]

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How we use CAPTCHAs

15 December 2010 by . No Comments.

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CAPTCHAs (or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are the distorted images containing text that you sometimes find at the end of forms when logging in or registering for various services online. These images are generally used to make sure that it is a human submitting the form, not an [...]

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StayPrivate.org common registration problems & queries

25 August 2010 by . 2 Comments.

Since we launched StayPrivate.org in June we’ve been receiving lots of comments, questions and requests for help from users of the service. As we’ve noticed trends in these messages, we’ve been making changes to the site such as adding in extra descriptions and help text to make it easier to use. We’ve also restructured our [...]

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StayPrivate.org update

16 June 2010 by . 1 Comment.

Since our post on Friday last week, we’ve been busy working on clearing the queue of submissions and implementing some of the feedback we’ve received. We’re pleased to say that we’ve now reduced the queues to a more manageable level and are submitting everyone within 2 hours of signing up. Since our media appearances on [...]

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StayPrivate.org 36 hours on

11 June 2010 by . 3 Comments.

Thank everyone who has signed up to StayPrivate.org over the last 36 hours or so. We’ve had massive interest in the website – much more than we expected. I’d also like to thank everyone who has sent us comments, suggestions and questions. We haven’t managed to reply to all of them yet, but we are [...]

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Helping to reduce cold calls & unwanted mail

10 June 2010 by . 11 Comments.

Following on from our announcement yesterday, we’ve just launched our new beta website – StayPrivate.org There are a huge number of marketing opt-out services provided in the UK. At present, each service has its own website and forms required to register. These forms require much of the same information such as your name, address, email [...]

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StayPrivate.org launches tomorrow (10/06/2010)

9 June 2010 by . 7 Comments.

In our last entry we mentioned a number of projects that we would be launching once the general election was over and we emerged from purdah. We are now at that point, and the first of these projects will be launched into beta tomorrow. StayPrivate.org is designed to make it easier to reduce the amount [...]

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