Select committee claims opening up public data could 'curb power of tech giants'

Supplier sought for project to develop NELSON tool

Statistics agency appeals from charity and private sector in promoting digital inclusion

Select committee repeats request to stop sharing with the Home Office the name and address of suspected immigration offenders, but NHS Digital insists arrangement is ‘in the public interest’

Department recruits for leader of newly created unit dedicated to leading the data policy agenda

Peter Ford of Pegasytems believes Whitehall has both the necessary will and technology to achieve its ambitions of operating as a single entity

Local police will also receive funding for training and the establishment of dedicated online crime units

Culture secretary talks to executives from embattled internet firm in London in 'robust but constructive' meeting

The technical director of the National Cyber Security Centre tells PublicTechnology about the organisation’s achievements so far, and what it is doing to prepare for an inevitable cyber emergency

As an ever-greater volume of increasingly sophisticated devices watch us all, PublicTechnology talks to regulator Tony Porter about his office’s role in ensuring surveillance is always used ‘proportionately and sensitively’

Cybersecurity agency issues report looking forward to coming dangers and back at year in which DDoS and ransomware hogged the headlines

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham issues update acknowledging changes made by social network but stressing ‘it is too early to say whether they are sufficient under the law’

Shaun Gomm of Sigma would like to see SMEs involved at every stage of the process

Combined authority seeks to unite all its disparate websites into newly designed site

Department also takes over BEIS remit for digital signatures in policy shake-up

Parliamentary Digital Service chief Tracey Jessup says she is "delighted" with new figures on pay by gender

 LGA tells digital department that cost threshold plan means rural premises could undermine legal guarantee

Sheila Flavell of FDM Group explains why diversity needs to be much more than just a tick-box exercise

Civil Service HR seeks new head of strategy and architecture to set the digital and transformation strategy for key cross-government team

However well versed the public sector is in the text of the incoming regulation, some questions will not be answered until the law is a living, breathing – and enforcing – entity. With two months until GDPR becomes law, PublicTechnology examines the biggest known unknowns

The CivTech scheme starts with a problem, not a solution, and encourages public sector agencies to work with start-ups and entrepreneurs to develop ideas