ICO set to issue fewer public sector fines to avoid ‘data breach victims being punished twice’
Penalties for public bodies often impact services – rather than shareholders – according to commissioner John Edwards
Government sets up £20m compensation pot for victims who fought to expose Post Office IT scandal
Increased funding is set to more than double the money received by those who brought group legal...
Government launches unified online portal for gender-recognition applications
Service was ‘developed and tested with trans people’ to help reduce administrative burden of...
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Government puts over £100m into police technology programmes
Home Office fund to make hefty investments in national projects
National Crime Agency flags up need for more big data skills
Deputy director general discusses agency’s requirement for ‘people who are comfortable working with information, data and analytics’
MoJ offers £130k for director of common technology services
Role comes with remit to oversee day-to-day running of core services, as well as leading move away form large outsourcing contracts
Scotland must learn lessons from the emperor’s new clothes of Whitehall transformation
The digital scene in Westminster can be a self-congratulatory echo chamber, and the Scottish Government must block out the noise, believes Digital Scotland founder Neil McEvoy
GDS working with departments to mitigate reported leak of sensitive data
Report reveals that information has been made publicly available online via an information-sharing tool widely used by government developers
MPs air more doubts on progress of £1bn courts digitisation scheme
Public Accounts Committee follows the NAO in voicing 'serious concerns' about reform programme
Online tool for jurors launched
System for allowing citizens to respond to a summons goes live today
MoJ offers £100k for leader of data and analysis
Department expresses desire to be ‘data driven’
ICO flags urgent need for laws on political parties’ use of data and hits Facebook with £500k fine
Commissioner’s progress report includes revelations about UKIP’s non-compliance and a six-figure penalty for a pregnancy website that supplied data for Labour Party marketing
Emergency Services Network rollout given red-light warning in annual major projects review
The annual report from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority shows government tech programmes of work are a mixed bag
IT error caused sharing of 150,000 NHS patients’ data against their will
Parliamentary statement reveals that problem with SystmOne application used by GPs meant individuals opt-out choices were not respected
Paramedics to be kitted out with body-worn cameras
Emergency-care workers become the latest public servants to be equipped with the mobile recording technology
HMRC used ‘implied consent’ to collect voiceprints of five million citizens
ICO investigating tax agency after investigation by advocacy group Big Brother Watch
Serious Fraud Office uses artificial intelligence to crack real crimes
Chief technology officer Ben Denison discusses how the organisation is using technology to get on top of increasingly vast and complex cases of bribery, fraud, and corruption
Constituents report MP to ICO over alleged data-protection breach in Facebook post
Data-protection watchdog ‘making enquiries’ after Conservative Gordon Henderson publishes names and partial addresses of local residents who sent him a letter
Don’t Gamble with your password resets!
The cautionary tale of the Leicestershire teenager who hacked high-ranking officials of NATO allies shows the need for improved password security
Norfolk police use drone to rescue man stranded in marshland
Missing man spotted on images provided by flying device
US Cyber Command outlines policy of ‘defending forward’
Command vision document strikes a more confrontational tone
Government and police to set up £1.4m anti-gang social-media unit
New 20-person team to become centre of excellence for understanding and combating gang-related online activity
Online legal aid eligibility checker still runs only on Internet Explorer
No current plans to update service that only works consistently on long-retired browser that cannot be downloaded onto Android and Apple products
Government to implement £70m satellite tracking system for immigration offenders
Home Office seeks software and hardware platform for monitoring those being prosecuted for immigration offences