27 July 2011 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
We sometimes get requests from companies asking us to remove their products from the Recalled Products website. These requests follow products being reclassified as fit for sale on the RAPEX website, the original EU-wide recalls resource from which our data is sourced. At first it seems to make sense to remove these products. After all, [...]
26 January 2011 by Joe Cicero. 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 [...]
21 January 2011 by Joe Cicero. 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 [...]
21 October 2010 by Joe Cicero. 1 Comment.
Last week the government announced that Consumer Focus is to be abolished as part of the Public Bodies Reform Bill introduced to Parliament. Whilst timescales and finer details are undefined at this point the intention is to transfer part of Consumer Focus’ functions to the charities Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland. Consumer Focus has [...]
11 September 2009 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
We like data at CF Labs – indeed we’d be nothing without lots of lovely data to build our apps around. So it’s logical that we’re committed to opening up and sharing data that we feel is in the public interest but is withheld unnecessarily or unfairly – think raw, infinitely useful data idling on [...]
29 July 2009 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
Just a quick heads up. Later today, the Product Recalls site will move to its own dedicated domain, recalledproducts.org. If you are a registered user, you don’t need to do anything at your end, but email alerts and RSS feeds will reflect the name change. The old domain should redirect all requests automatically.
3 June 2009 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
Big thanks to everyone who took the time to submit their ideas to this site. We spent time last week going through all the the ideas and singled several out for development. The selection criteria was pretty simple, taking account of factors such as: Is the idea within our consumer remit? Does the idea offer [...]
28 May 2009 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
Unfortunately, we’ve been forced to delay the launch of our first site due to last-minute issues regarding the re-use of the data set we were hoping to use. Not to be deterred, and as we are in the business of opening up data sets, we’re currently investigating solutions to this problem and hope to launch [...]
1 May 2009 by Joe Cicero. 1 Comment.
It’s been a busy April for CF Labs. Our first month proper (i.e. with a full-strength team) has been all about getting our working environment set up, meeting people to get the message out and ideas in, and also embarking on our first development project. For this we’re producing a relatively straightforward proof-of-concept website which [...]
Consumer Focus is the independent champion for consumers across England, Wales, Scotland and (for postal consumers) in Northern Ireland. We operate across the whole of the economy, persuading businesses and public services to put consumers at the heart of what they do.
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