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Keith Appleyard

Facebook - take care to check your Privacy Settings

Facebook has changed the way its privacy settings operate, asking users to change their settings even if they had already been set. Users logging on this week are presented with a new screen that the...

11 Dec 2009
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Keith Appleyard

National Border Targeting Centre - staff training delays

The opening of the operations centre at the heart of a new £1.2bn computer system - planned to monitor every person who enters or leaves the UK - has been delayed by staff training. The National Bor

10 Dec 2009
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Keith Appleyard

DNA evidence will still harm your employment prospects

Back in August I wrote about DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=3190 County Durham police last week put the final nail in the coffin of the Home Office ...

10 Dec 2009
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Keith Appleyard

Retain the Cheques for Small Business and Small People

I see both sides of this coin at the Children's Charity (Playgroup) I run. Only yesterday I received 3 Invoices, none of which contained any Bank details, so I was obliged to pay by Cheque. I’m just f...

25 Nov 2009
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Keith Appleyard

DEFRA Single Payment Scheme shows poor value for money

The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Rural Payments Agency’s Single Payment Scheme uses a £350 million IT system to pay farmers the right amount in EU subsidies. But the Natio...

10 Nov 2009
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Keith Appleyard

Ministry of Justice employees overpaid by 1.5m pounds

Freedom of Information Act requests revealed more than 1,000 staff at the department were overpaid a total of £1,522,995 over the last three years – but more than half that total will never be paid ba...

25 Sep 2009
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Keith Appleyard

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated

Over the past twenty years, DNA analysis has revolutionised forensic science, and has become a dominant tool in law enforcement. DNA evidence is key to the conviction or exoneration of suspects of var...

19 Aug 2009
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Keith Appleyard

118 800 mobile phone directory may stay offline permanently

I wrote back on 10th June https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2942 and 13th July about the new UK Mobile Phone Directory https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=3057 Good n...

28 Jul 2009
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Keith Appleyard

118 800 mobile number directory crashes

I wrote back on 10th June about How to Opt out of the new UK Mobile Phone Directory https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2942 The controversial service has been overwhelmed by users rus...

13 Jul 2009
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Keith Appleyard

How to Opt Out of the new UK Mobile Phone Directory

Are you aware of the new controversial 118800 mobile phone directory which launches next week? Do you want to learn how to opt out of it? Start up firm Connectivity (www.118800.co.uk) has bought lis

10 Jun 2009
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Keith Appleyard

Beware Pay by Phone Cashless Payment at Car Parks

Many cities across the world are switching over to Pay by Phone Cashless Payment at Car Parks. The market leader is Verrus (www.verrus.com) who has contracts in over 100 cities across UK & North ...

09 Jun 2009
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Keith Appleyard

Parliamentary Expenses - Principles override System

We’ve all heard, and will no doubt continue to hear, lots of explanations from Members of Parliament accused of abusing the Expenses Regime, often blaming the ‘system’. Actually the Green Book 2009 ...

29 May 2009
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