Standards watchdog flags up accountability concerns over ministers’ use of WhatsApp
Lord Evans tells MPs that personal messaging platforms should only be used by ministers if doing so can be properly regulated
Prison transformation: MoJ agrees £12m deal for 18,000 PCs
Contract signed with US-based IT reseller
Home Office seeks to improve data on airport ‘insider threats’
Improvements to pass system will attempt to address ‘potential security vulnerability’
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Courts agencies plan multimillion-pound digitisation of criminal justice services
HMCTS and CPS float contract notice
Facial recognition ‘not fit for use’, Scottish committee finds
MSPs warn of potential of ‘Wild West’ environment for new technology
Labour leadership hopeful calls for right to ignore emails outside work hours
Rebecca Long-Bailey says she supports introduction of laws similar to those in France
Online right to rent checker due this year
Home Office building digital tool to support compliance with controversial scheme
Home Office still working on fix for software issue that caused failure to notify EU countries of 75,000 convictions
Tens of thousands of overseas offenders could have travelled home without their country of citizenship being alerted to a serious offence
No changes needed to legal framework for facial recognition, minister claims
Policing minister Malthouse says Brexit will not change legal standing
Oxford NHS trust digital chief sentenced for fraud over false degree claims
Senior manager given suspended prison sentence
London police to roll out live facial recognition technology
Critics ramp up opposition as force announces controversial kit will go into live operational use
HMRC seeks tech to unearth cryptocurrency cybercriminals
Tax agency looks to invest in cryptoanalysis tool
Scottish Government project explores use of blockchain and AI in fishing
Highlands and Islands Enterprise to run scheme looking at how new tech could be used in seafood sector
GDS floats £100k in bid to recruit strategy chief
Role comes with a remit to oversee the work of 140 staff across four areas
Scottish police get green light to use encryption-busting ‘cyber kiosks’
Officers can finally begin using technology almost two years after it was first purchased
Ex-MoJ worker jailed after stealing £1.7m via scam IT contract
Former commercial professional given 42-month custodial sentence
Legal Aid Agency looks to end ‘reliance on USBs and CDs’
Organisation issues guidance on use of removable media
DWP seeks leader to drive use of tech to combat fraud and error
Deputy director position comes with salary of £90,000
‘The most significant cybercrime threat to the UK’ – authorities indict Evil Corp kingpin
Reward of $5m offered for Maksim Yakubets
CPS consults industry on presentation of electronic evidence in court
Agency looks for market input ahead of floating potential five-year contract for a supplier to provide roving fleet of AV equipment
How has the online voter registration service coped with 100,000 users a day?
Since MPs voted in favour of a December election, upwards of 3.5 million registrations have been processed digitally
US government gives Huawei 90-day trade licence extension
American firms cleared to do business with Chinese tech titan until the new year
Government fails to rule out anti-encryption law but says agreement with Facebook is ‘preferred solution’
Home Office factsheet claims that proposals made by the social network so far are ‘not satisfactory’
Government promises ‘regular and robust dialogue’ with social networks on election disinformation
Representative points to steps taken so far but says ‘there is clearly much more to be done’