Breaking The Cookie Wall

The holiday season is here once again. When it comes to the holidays, there is one thing that most people can agree on and that is that cookies are delicious. While you may get tired of cookies in the near future there is another set of cookies that you have probably become tired of in […]

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What Is The California Consumer Privacy Act?

Do you remember GDPR? When GDPR was enacted in the European Union there were a lot of questions and in the time since some of them have been answered. GDPR was the first sweeping legislation that tackled consumer data and what companies can do with that data (and many more things). The world did not […]

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GDPR And Associations, Non-Profits and 501(C)s

Do you run an Association and/or Non-Profit 501(c) organization? At Nicely Done Sites we have worked with many of these organizations to help build their websites so that they can further their mission. If you are one of these organizations, are you in compliance with GDPR? If you are not, you should be. But Isn’t […]

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Google Is Coming Under Fire

Google has had somewhat of a sterling reputation as a corporation. They have done that by maintaining an impressive security repertoire, which has shielded them from many of the ills that have plagued other businesses and corporations and they have for the most part stayed away from scandal. That has changed in recent months as […]

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Do You Know How To Delete Your Alexa Recordings?

No one wants to be spied on but with today’s technology it has become easier than ever. Numerous devices can be connected to the Internet of Things and one of the most popular of the lot is a personal assistant. They can be very helpful, we have two of them here at the Nicely Done […]

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A Look At GDPR One Year In

A little over a year ago the European Union’s sweeping GDPR regulations were released. For some these laws were a sweeping victory for copyright holders in the war against Internet privacy. For others it threatened to take the fun out of the Internet by killing memes and throw it into pandemonium with billions of dollars […]

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Alexa Busted for Eavesdropping

For many bringing a personal assistant into their home has been great. Others have not been as quick to embrace them, whether it is through a lack of understanding of new technology or just seeing no need for it. Other people have believed that their assistant is capable of eavesdropping on them though many have […]

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Could Federal Law on data protection be coming

The privacy of our data has been in the news a lot this year. It has brought some of our favorite social media platforms before Congress for hearings with all of the partisan bickering that we have come to expect from our elected officials in Washington. Overshadowed by the Kavanaugh hearings a few weeks ago […]

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GDPR and some new privacy policies

You may have noticed that you received a lot of email notifications that companies were changing their privacy policies or terms of service. If you have paid attention to the tech world you know that this is in response to the GDPR regulations enacted by the EU on May 25. It may have seemed like […]

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Fallout of the first days of GDPR

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into effect on May 25 it did not take long for the first complaints to be filed. This should be no surprise, even though Europeans are nowhere near as litigious as us Americans. Among the early targets of these complaints were Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp (the […]

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