Archive for May 2018

The Ultimate Guide to WordPress and GDPR Compliance (in Plain English)

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/the-ultimate-guide-to-wordpress-and-gdpr-compliance-everything-you-need-to-know/ Are you confused by GDPR, and how it will impact your WordPress site? This article tries to explain everything you need to know about GDPR and WordPress (without the complex legal stuff). The EU isn’t some evil government that is out to get you. Their goal is to protect consumers.

EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line

Julia Reda (from European Parliament) writes at EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line page that EU governments agree on copyright reform, that needs EU parliament approval, to let news sites charge aggregators for snippets, force upload filters on websites. This sound to me like a pretty bad idea based

Teleduino controller

I wrote a few years ago about Teleduino project for making IoT using Arduino at Teleduino IoT API for Arduino article. This article described connecting Arduino to Internet and controlling it with web browser URLs. The article also mentioned that there is an Android App Teleduino Controller. Then got an comment that said: I invite

Arduino Playground – Shield Pin Usage

https://playground.arduino.cc/Main/ShieldPinUsage There is a large number of shields available for the Arduino. When debugging Arduino projects it would be nice to know which Arduino pins are utilized by each shield. This page is intended to provide that information.

A bug in cell phone tracking firm’s website leaked millions of Americans’ real-time locations | ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cell-phone-tracking-firm-exposed-millions-of-americans-real-time-locations/ Another week and another privacy disaster. Now a company that collects the real-time location data on millions of cell phone customers across North America had a bug in its website that may have exposed nearly every cell phone customer in the US and Canada, some 200 million customers. The LocationSmart page required explicit consent