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 [...]
9 December 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Over the past few months the Energy team at Consumer Focus have been working to develop a way to publish information about the way energy suppliers handle complaints. The aim is to provide people with additional useful information which can be used when deciding which energy supplier to use. The team has been compiling quarterly [...]
7 December 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
A little while ago the Community and Public Services team at Consumer Focus commissioned the Plunkett Foundation and the Social Enterprise Coalition to compile details of post offices owned and operated by communities. The data includes contact details, core activities, company type, their relationship with Post Office Ltd (POL), details of the services provided, information [...]
10 June 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. 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 [...]
9 June 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. 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 [...]
3 March 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
In our last update we talked about some of the new responsibilities we’ve inherited and what our plans were for the next few months. We wanted to give you all an update on what we’ve been up to since then and what we’ve still to do. Consumer Focus Corporate Website In October we announced that [...]
13 August 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
At midnight yesterday the Digital Switchover began in Wales with the switch off of BBC 2 in the Swansea area. Over the next few months, the rest of Wales will be converted, finishing in March 2010. Prior to the start of the switchover in Wales, our parent organisation Consumer Focus Wales conducted a mystery shopper [...]
22 June 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 5 Comments.
We’ve been talking for a while about the first project that we’ve been building, and today we’re pleased to be able to switch on the Product Recalls website. The issue of product recalls is a tricky one. Some companies publish notices in the national newspapers or display a poster in their shop window. Some of [...]
19 May 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
As we mentioned in our last post, we’ve been busy working away on our first CF Labs project. We’re nearly there, and are gearing up for its launch. Late last week, we released an early beta version of the site to a number of people within Consumer Focus, and those signed up to our mailing [...]
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