News from the digital world – page 18

Google maps services are now more expensive and will limit you more! Recently, clients have started contacting us en masse with questions about Google maps because they have noticed problems with their display and functionality. What happened? Some time ago, Google mentioned that it planned to start making more money from its maps. Since May…

Due to high operating costs and a serious bug that allowed access to non-public user data, Google has decided to shut down its social network Google+. Google+ as an unsuccessful competitor to Facebook Google+ was launched back in 2011 and the platform aimed to compete with the then already popular Facebook. In the end, it…

Do you know the factors that Google's search engine algorithm uses to determine whether a website is of good quality or not? If you have absolutely no idea how to convince Google of the quality of your website, here are a few points to keep in mind. Because the moment you discover any weaknesses, you…

Four months have already passed since the GDPR came into force. Have you managed to successfully implement it in your company, or have you not yet fully completed the implementation? And do you know on whose head all the responsibility actually falls? It's amazing how quickly and inexorably time flies. Slowly, the countdown timers to…

Cookies that allow unambiguous recognition of endpoint devices are one of the problematic areas in Internet privacy. Currently, cookies are regulated in the Electronic Communications Act, but their actual use in practice varies widely. We informed you about ePrivacy, or the Electronic Communications Privacy Regulation, in a previous article. Today we will focus specifically on…

Do you know why you should care about the time it takes for a website or a specific page to load? It's easier than you think. Nobody likes to wait, and in the end it doesn't matter if it's the time spent in line at the post office, at the store, or on the web.…

The essence of ePrivacy is the protection of users, who must be able to knowingly consent to the collection of data about them by electronic communications providers.

In everyday life we encounter text in its various forms. We can read a newspaper, a book or just magazines at the station. But have you ever read hypertext? Even though that foreign word may seem like one of the incantations from a mysterious spellbook, don't be fooled! It's safe to assume that almost everyone…

What are the penalties for non-compliance? Will the Czech Republic regulate them in any way? What is the highest fine so far and who has received it? It's quite heated in the House of Commons at the moment. The issue of the level of penalties for municipalities for violation of the new rules on personal…

In the context of the confusion that has arisen in the run-up to GDPR, there have been suggestions that the information contained in cookies and IP address is personal data. But these assumptions and fears turned out to be completely unfounded, so you can rest easy - because personal data is not always personal data.…

Another piece from our workshop is here. This time we have started to create a website for a company that works on AAA computer games. No, it's not really about flashlights :-), but it is about games developed by a team of well-known developers with a high financial budget for development and subsequent promotion. Rascals'…

According to the GDPR, personal data is any information about an identified natural person. So it includes data that can be indirectly linked to a specific person. You may have thought that if you remove data such as birth number or name from your database, you're all set. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. According to…