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Government facing legal challenge as DCMS admits use of automatically deleting messages
Campaign groups Foxglove and The Citizens to launch court case in two weeks if practice is not stopped
HM Passport Office picks Atos for £20m five-year digital support deal
Home Office agency to work with French IT heavyweight
Scotland appoints leaders for AI strategy
Thirteen-strong team of tech experts brought together
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NHS spends £2.7m on extension to system capturing patient data from vaccine centres
Platform covers the collection of both clinical and non-clinical information
Website aims to reimagine citizens’ relationship with land
Scottish Land Commission opens new digital platform
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NHS Digital postpones plans to gather GP patient data after criticisms over transparency
Commencement of GPDPR pushed back by two months
Shredded government docs turned into toilet paper
Contract for secure disposal signed with social enterprise
GDS signs £5m contract extensions with Verify partners to support new sign-ups until April 2022
Deals awarded to Post Office and Digidentity also include the transfer of data to government
DCMS study flags up potential of online safety tech market
Government-commissioned report finds growth in number of companies and sector revenues
DWP signs £27m Crown Hosting contract extension due to ‘security requirements’
Department claims that dedicated datacentre space remains essential
GDS recruits managers for cross-government digital identity work
Organisation advertises three senior roles for ‘One Login for Government’ project
Councils to pilot interactive maps for local planning
Government-funded trial with 14 English councils will aim to modernise planning processes
DWP used data to help 540,000 unpaid carers get early vaccinations
Department made first bulk data transfer to NHS England in February
NHS Covid app signs £10m six-month contract extension with developer Zühlke
Supplier will provide support for technology that could be scaled to 50 million users
Government funds £1.2m AI project to help planning for protected areas
Initiative aims to make better use of data
Government Covid travel scheme to gather data on 150 million people a year
Home Office systems will store information on all arrivals in the UK for at least six weeks
Home Office talks up digital visa plan
Priti Patel claims tech-based system will provide ‘a far clearer picture of who is here and whether they should be’
Scottish statistics body ordered to publish coronavirus care home death data
Regulator rules that information has been unlawfully withheld
Vaccine status prompts millions to download NHS app
Figures show program is adding about 100,000 new users per day
Report identifies crucial role of satellite data in combatting climate change
Academic network publishes briefing on role of data in dealing with issues such as floods and wildfires
New IT system makes little impact on delays to Windrush compensation
Since tech infrastructure was updated a year ago, only a tenth of 1,000-plus applications have reached payment-approval stage
Minister pledges Central Digital and Data Office will target ‘elephant in the room’ legacy IT
Newly created entity will also focus on data infrastructure
Ageing NHS IT slowed flow of data on vulnerable citizens, NAO finds
Report identifies delays in accessing information to alert those that needed to shield as chief auditor points to ‘challenges posed by legacy data and IT systems’