Government is merely flirting with digital – it’s time to commit
Nat Gross of industry body BIMA believes that all political parties must do more to ensure the UK remains at the digital vanguard
Digital service to allow patients to track how their NHS data is used
Two months on from WannaCry attack, Department of Health publishes extensive report detailing...
GOV.UK Verify to be extended to cover other countries next year
Trials also ongoing in local government and private sector
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GDPR deadline: One third of public sector decision makers not confident they’ll be ready
Cloud Industry Forum finds widespread confusion and degree of apathy among UK organisations in regards to GDPR
ICO bids to promote data protection and privacy research with grants programme
Grants of up to £100,000 available for eligible organisations
Turning the tide: how the public sector can win the battle against shadow IT
Tackling shadow IT should be an urgent priority for government in the wake of the WannaCry breach on the NHS, says Julian Cook.
Health care 'disproportionately affected' by data security incidents
Information Commissioner's Office shows sharp increase in data breach incidents in central government and courts sectors.
Basildon Borough Council fined £150,000 for revealing disability and health data of family
Council published sensitive data of family on its online portal
Q&A: Tom Smith, MD at the Office for National Statistics Data Science Campus
Earlier this year the Office for National Statistics launched its Data Science Campus, promising to deliver ‘data science for public good’. Rebecca Hill spoke to its managing director Tom Smith to find out what that means in practice.
Local government ‘key audience’ for European data sharing initiative
European consortium will engage with local government ‘everywhere’ as part of open data project to give individuals greater control of their online data.
NHS cyber attack forces week-long council email block
A council was forced to block all emails from the public and external organisations for a week following the NHS cyber attack, it has emerged
ICT industry demands cybersecurity boost
Government must triple the funding for securing its online services, according to industry body TechUK in the wake of last week’s cyberattack which affected the NHS.
Overcoming public sector patch paralysis and risk culture
The global ransomware attack has been followed by an outcry about the NHS' reliance on legacy systems. Harry Metcalfe and Lee Maguire of dxw say you can't properly diagnose the problem - or understand an organisation's culture - from the outside, but call for technicians to be empowered to act quickly when...
UPDATED: General election 2017: Manifesto round-up
After the Tories released their manifesto,PublicTechnology takes a look at the three main parties' plans for digital and technology ahead of next month's general election.
Former civil service head Bob Kerslake: ‘Pretty much every department is at risk’ of cyber attack
Government should look ‘very seriously’ at investing more in both cyber security and training, as investigation - and finger-pointing - over WannaCry continue
Implied consent ‘not an appropriate legal basis’ for sharing 1.6 million patient records with DeepMind
Leaked letter from government's national data guardian Fiona Caldicott says patient records were being used to test and develop Streams app - not for direct care
NHS cyber attack a 'wake-up call' for government
Governments must start taking cyber security as seriously as physical military security, according to Microsoft’s president, in the wake of the attack which affected the NHS on Friday.
Cambridge academic calls on health sector to stop using term ‘data ownership’
Lydia Drumright argues for a more accurate common language will help boost public trust
Governments ‘most attacked sector’ - as proportion of cyber attacks double globally
Latest attack analysis from Dimension Data shows 14% of all cyber attacks were on the public sector - putting it at the top of the most attacked sectors list for the first time
Local election 2017: Changing council colours might not earn digital any go-faster stripes
Last week’s local elections saw a swing to the Conservatives, with a few successes for Labour in the city mayoral polls. But, if the political landscape has shifted, David Walker says it remains to be seen if local government tech will move beyond business as usual.
‘More than an acronym’: Authorities set out plans for a London Office of Technology and Innovation
Scoping exercise launched for an organisation to cut down duplication and add value to a tech ecosystem that ‘drifts too readily’ towards tech solutions in search of problems
ICO slams police force for ‘cavalier’ attitude to data after unencrypted interview footage goes missing
Greater Manchester Police slapped with £150,000 fine from data protection watchdog for failing to protect sensitive footage of interviews with victims of violent crimes
‘End to council tax’: Medway Council to investigate Twitter hack
Kent council’s Twitter feed claimed to have been ‘taken over by the citizens of Medway’, announcing end to parking restrictions and council tax
PAC chair identifies government data, contracts and shared services as areas of concern
HMRC, Crown Commercial Service and Whitehall’s use of data come under fire in Meg Hillier’s annual report