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Police launch identity fraud campaign

Devon and Cornwall Police has today launched a week long awareness campaign encouraging people to protect their personal information.

The ‘Not With My Name’ campaign, produced in partnership with the City of London Police (National Policing Lead for Fraud) is targeting identity crime in our communities.

Identity fraud is an offence that one in four UK adults – approximately 12million people - is believed to have fallen victim to losing on average £1,200 each. Total losses to the UK adult population are estimated to be £3.3 billion.*

In the first quarter of 2015...

New Content Creation Service Launched In Exeter

Authored by Charlie
Posted: Tue, 03/10/2015 - 8:01am

Exeter based branding agency Red Rocket and Gusto Marketing have joined forces to offer a new content creation service, Freshly Made.

Freshly Made sessions last a full day and involve the creation of videos, images, infographics and written articles to help support content marketing activities.

So why did Red Rocket and Gusto create Freshly Made?

Any business investing in online marketing is likely to have been encouraged to create awesome content. We’re being told that if we want to win peoples’ attention, we’ve got to create ‘engaging’, ‘valuable’, ‘shareable’ and...

Fraud prevention efforts continue

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 03/03/2015 - 9:28am

Devon and Cornwall Police is supporting a fraud awareness campaign being launched across the region today.

The Home Office funded ‘Spot It, Stop It’ campaign aims to raise awareness of various scams people may fall prey to, particularly doorstep fraud and telephone and online scams.

There were 8,600 reports of fraud in Devon and Cornwall last year resulting in the loss of around £9 million.

Victims are usually aged between 61 and 90.

As part of the campaign the Home Office is surveying a cross-section of people over 60 to provide a snapshot of the awareness...

Trust wins national e-learning award

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 02/12/2015 - 11:08am

The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust has beaten off competition from Sony Europe, Tesco Bank and Jurys Inn to win a national award for the success of its online learning management system (LMS) for staff.

The Trust and Kallidus, the LMS company it works with, struck gold at the e-Learning Awards in London.

They won the Best Learning Management System Implementation category at an awards ceremony attended by around 550 guests and experts from across the industry.

The Trust has reported significant improvements in e-learning since switching to Kallidus in 2013....

Online courts could reduce costs by 2017

The future of civil law courts is likely to be online according to a new report. The study suggests that it will increase access to justice and streamline the court processes in England and Wales.

The Civil Justice Council (CJC) set up an advisory group to explore the role of a new Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) in resolving civil disputes across the internet, using techniques such e-negotiation and e-mediation. Sue Prince, Associate Professor of Law, University of Exeter was selected to be part of the group to advise the CJC, as she has previously carried out research on small...

Delve into the controversies of the British Empire

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 01/15/2015 - 10:56am

The opportunity to explore the British Empire through stories of the individuals who contributed to its rise and fall and the themes of money, violence, race, religion, sex, propaganda and power is now available through a free online course. Ruling over a quarter of the world’s population and paving the way for today’s global economy, the British Empire continues to cause enormous disagreement amongst historians. It raises many questions and areas for debate which will be explored over six weeks, in three hour slots of interactive online participation, starting from 19 January. Experts...

New measures to tackle online child abuse

An unprecedented package of measures to eradicate online child abuse will be announced today by the Prime Minister at the UK government’s #WeProtect Children Online summit in London.

Delegations from more than 50 countries, 26 leading technology companies and 10 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are taking part in the 2 day summit at Lancaster House, the first of its kind in the world.

Speaking at the summit, the PM will announce a new joint National Crime Agency (NCA)/Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) specialist unit to tackle the worst cases of child...

WiFi SPARK welcomes ‘Friendly WiFi' scheme

Authored by WiFi SPARK
Posted: Fri, 10/24/2014 - 9:03am

WiFi SPARK, the fastest growing WiFi provider in the UK, has welcomed the launch of the ‘Friendly WiFi’ scheme unveiled by the Government recently.

This scheme is the first to officially block pornographic and explicit websites, videos and images across public WiFi – a positive step in the right direction, but something which WiFi SPARK has done for the past decade as standard.

WiFi SPARK has been including content filtering as a matter of course across all of its WiFi installations, which include hundreds of NHS locations as well as schools, colleges and universities,...

Real Person Fiction

Event Date: 
02/12/2014 - 7:30pm to 05/12/2014 - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

'People would still pay attention if I wasn’t…I’m not just an extension of Will.'

Consumed by the vicious, near-constant messages being sent to her by her ex-boyfriend’s fans, the last thing Jen needs is a visit from his co-star, Eli. But with Eli insistent that she should give Will another chance, and Will and Eli’s fans convinced that she’s getting in the way of true love, Jen decides that she needs to know the reality of the two men’s feelings for each other, regardless of the consequences.

Real Person Fiction is an intense new play from Living Robot Theatre...

Michelmores host Cyber Risk Uncovered seminar

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 06/10/2014 - 10:23am

It seems that every month there is a report on a company being hacked and personal data being put at risk.

Recently eBay hit the headlines as one of the latest victims of cybercrime and as a result, has asked all of its customers to reset their passwords. Now, an Exeter-based seminar hosted by Michelmores Solicitors is going to discuss the risk of cyber crime for internet users, and potential liability associated with data storage.

The “Cyber Risk Uncovered” seminar will pose the question, “Can data security exist in the digital age?”

Tom Torkar, an Associate with...

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