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Modern Slavery Act - training for the apparel sector

2016-02-09 13:22:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

A one-day workshop designed to help apparel firms prepare for the introduction of the UK's new Modern Slavery Act is to take place next month.

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Facebook given 3 months to comply with French privacy act

2016-02-09 09:24:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) French data protection authority Cnil has issued formal notice to Facebook to come into line with the country's Data Protection Act within 3 months or face a potential penalty. The Cnil objects to several ways in which the social networking pioneer collects personal data, including information about internet users who do not have a Facebook account. Facebook offers no tools to allow users to prevent the compilation and transfer to third parties of user-provided information, which 'violates their fundamental rights and interests, including their right to respect for private life.'

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Glass-based UV Absorbers act as Biological Shields.

2016-01-22 14:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Group of researchers in China has developed a new method to create transparent, glass-based materials with UV–absorbing power and long lifetimes. Team demonstrated that the new metal oxide glass effectively protects living cells and organic dyes, and believe it could also be developed as a transparent shield to protect electronics in space. Based on self-limited nanocrystallization of glass, method team developed is described in Optical Materials Express, a journal of The Optical Society.

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