Data
How secure is government and should we have a right to know?
In a lengthy attempt to find out about the security of government’s software systems, PublicTechnology finds a very uneven approach to transparency and what constitutes sensitive information
Government declines to set date for contact-tracing app
Head of Test and Trace programme Baroness Harding says she does not want to specify a timeframe...
How Brexit Britain could become a surveillance state
The UK has tended to only introduce data-protection laws in conjunction with EU legislation...
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Gove believes Whitehall reform plans will not suffer because of close association with Cummings
Cabinet Office minister said that, despite the controversy that often surrounds the PM’s top adviser, ‘people are interested in Dominic and his ideas’
Cyber national security: how the UK has prepared itself for major attacks
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Manchester mayor claims local authorities being ‘kept in the dark’ by government on coronavirus testing data
Andy Burnham says more detailed information needs to be provided with greater frequency
Government defends Test and Trace as proportion of contacts being reached drops sharply
In the first two weeks tracers were successfully reaching more than nine in ten identified close contacts, but this has now fallen to less than three quarters
Regulatory clampdown urged as CMA finds £400 per household goes to Google and Facebook each year
CMA says that all of society will lose out ‘if the market power of these firms goes unchecked’
Gove urges structural change of ‘government machine’ in call for reform
Minister discusses need for new training campus and greater use of data in evaluation of projects
Report finds ‘profound failings’ in Scottish NHS IT systems
Holyrood committee is sharply critical of technology underpinning the prescription of medicines
Home Office ramps up video asylum interviews as backlog passes 50,000
The oldest claim awaiting decision was filed eight years ago and 10,000 more were added to the waiting list in the first three months of 2020 alone
Disinformation poses ‘existential threat’ to democracy, parliamentary committee warns
Report from crossbench group of peers accuses government of failing to deal with a growing problem
DWP agrees to fix digital issues after dropping legal battle over UC flaw
Department’s decision to retreat from lawsuit represents a victory for four single mothers
HMRC claims issue with online tax rebate system fixed after days of problems
Citizens report inability to claim repayments and delays to those that have already claimed
Contact-tracing success rate drops
Data shows declines in the proportion of both confirmed cases and their contacts being reached by tracers
NHS data watchdog calls for ‘no surprises’ rule in use of patient info
Consultation opened on addition of eighth principle for the health system’s use of data
Johnson claims no country yet has a ‘functional contact-tracing app’ during PMQs grilling
The prime minister overlooked 22 other nations that have launched tracking technology as Keir Starmer turned up the heat
Who stole nine antique clocks worth £50,000 from the Foreign Office?
Annual fraud data shows lost phones, online shopping sprees and some mysterious missing timepieces
DHSC to develop robotic process automation to sort correspondence
Department awards contract for nine-month contract for project to build RPA tool
Government auditors ‘generated £1bn savings’ last year
NAO annual report claims the organisation saved £16 for every £1 it spent
Test and trace scheme failing to reach more than one in four coronavirus cases
Almost 4,000 people that have test positive have not been contacted by tracers
West Yorkshire looks to build £3m cloud-based traffic-management hub
System will bring together existing databases across three areas
ICO flags concerns of ‘poor practices’ in police collection of smartphone data
Regulator identifies inconsistent approaches between forces and tendency to collect excessive information