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Arenas across the globe are continually looking to embrace the latest technologies that effectively provide visitors with memorable experiences while delivering a strong return on investment. One of the most popular solutions has become guest WiFi which Forbes highlighted as “a true service differentiator with fans.” No longer just a nice to have, guest WiFi…

the world’s strictest data protection laws
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What is data protection and data privacy? The concept of the right to privacy emerged in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN. This states that “no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence”. By 1978, the first marketing email had been…

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Over the past 10 years, this term and the market have evolved to include a host of indoor location services such as Digital Wayfinding, Asset Tracking, and more relevant than ever Guest WiFi. The exponential growth witnessed has proven there is a real need to understand physical spaces and the visitors in them, just as…

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A new era for data handling? Over the past few years, the combination of ‘IoT’ devices & AI / Machine Learning has been used to collect huge amounts of big data. Companies from the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Solution) & PaaS (Platform as a Solution) markets are continually releasing new products to meet client needs. …

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A quick summary of IoT – The “Internet Of Things” The “Internet of Things” was coined by British technology pioneer, Kevin Ashton in 1999, defining it as a system in which the internet is connected to the physical world by utilizing sensors and RFID tags. You can visualize the ‘IoT’ as being made up of…

California introduces new data security laws.
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With great data, comes great responsibility… Since Purple’s beginning in 2012, data security has been at the forefront of our business and we’ve always gone a step further by providing guests the moment they log in with an easy to read and digestible terms of business and privacy policy which enables guests to manage their…

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We are proud to announce that Purple is now General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant, having unveiled our revised privacy policy and brand-new Profile Portal today, which gives end users complete transparency of all the data collected about them. The EU legislation doesn’t officially come into force until May 25th 2018, but as the first mover…

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Cleaning festival loos, hugging stray cats and dogs, and scraping chewing gum off the streets are just some of the uninviting tasks people have agreed to in exchange for free WiFi. And we aren’t just talking about a few hundred unfortunate individuals. Over 22,000 people have openly agreed to carry out 1,000 hours of community…

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In a society with a high demand for digital connectivity “on the move”, there is an increasing demand for public WiFi services  to be made widely available. Businesses are understandably keen to meet that demand, however, there are a number of key areas of legal compliance which Wi-Fi providers should be aware of before offering…

indoor location tracking to reach $5bn by 2018
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Online has for many years been spoilt with the wealth of information available to understand visitor behaviour, one of the really interesting developments was in-page analytics. What this allows you to do is understand user behaviour and how they journey through your site, a few small tweaks with positioning, size, colour and let’s see what…

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