Skill Zone News issue 135
The clocks go forward on the last Sunday in March, but the EU countries, (and currently that still includes the UK), have decided the time has come to do away with the spring and autumn clock adjustments. However, we've still got a couple of years before this happens, and we will still need to adjust the clocks twice a year with the final change being October 2021.
28th March 2019
The strongest rules and the weakest enforcement
It is coming up to one year now since GDPR came into operation, giving the European Economic Area (EEA) the world's strongest privacy regulations. But has it helped improve our privacy, or has it just made the web experience even more cumbersome?
Cash sucks, but so does plastic
The London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has lost £120,000 to theft from its parking meters over the past year, and the tools of the trade for the thieves are a power drill and a vacuum cleaner.
Raising an eyebrow at physiognomy
The famous philosopher Aristotle claimed it was possible to infer character from features, a concept which became known as physiognomy and came to fame in the 19th century as a belief that potential criminals could be identified by facial features.