Justice secretary scolded for leaking stats on transgender prisoners to press
UKSA chair says giving data to journalists ahead of official release ‘risks misinforming the public’
Government hopes transparency standard can build trust in departments’ use of algorithms
New guidelines created by Central Digital and Data Office
Defra signs £1m extension for national equine database
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Private email and messaging accounts subject to FOI laws, says information commissioner
Elizabeth Denham indicates that application of legislation is determined by nature of information, not technology used
HMRC achieves ‘significant improvement’ in IT uptime in FY21
Annual accounts for in-house IT company show number of ‘red days’ fell by a third, while coronavirus crisis saw costs rise more than £9m
Government to ‘remain vigilant’ on carbon footprint of data storage
Minister says plans to use information to help reduce emissions should not come at expense of increased environmental impact
Authorities investigate Labour cyberattack that impacted ‘significant quantity’ of supporters’ data
NCA probes incident in which personal info of members and supported may have been breached
Information commissioner succession plans confirmed
Elizabeth Denham will remain in post for an extra month and her deputies will take on regulatory duties for a further month until incoming chief John Edwards starts in new year
UK and EU agree digital vaccine pass reciprocity
Travellers can scan smartphone passes at border posts across the union and its one former member
Calls for home secretary to shed light on deal to store top-secret spy data in AWS cloud
Critics claim potential £1bn contract is ‘deeply concerning’, but former NCSC head describes move as ‘perfectly sensible decision’
Whistleblower warns MPs that ‘Facebook is closing the door’ on opportunity to regulate
Frances Haugen gives evidence to inform development of Online Harms legislation
Brexit: Home Office proceeds with work on platform to share policing alerts
Multimillion-pound system is intended to mitigate the loss of access to pan-European SIS security database
Could wearable tech for soldiers ‘predict injuries before they occur’?
Funding scheme offers £200,000 to support testing of proposals
GDS seeks £5m partner to deliver identity-checking app for new government-wide login
Chosen supplier will also have remit to help digital agency increase its app-development credentials
Government plans imminent legislation for digital visas
Legal provisions for new system of electronic travel authorisations will soon be tabled in parliament
Covid response policy unit extends data science support in £500k deal
Joint Biosecurity Centre renews engagement with Accenture
Army’s ‘unconventional warfare’ division signs £8m deal to improve data sources
Unit claims commercially available data offers a better option than open-source intelligence
DHSC signs £3.75m one-year deal to bring Test and Trace data platform in house
Information will be moved from BAE-developed platform to be managed by new public health agency
DWP offers £105k for leader to ‘build world-class data function’
Position as head of data as a service represents a ‘once-in-a-career opportunity’, according to department
Civil service chief: ‘Technology is both an enabler and a taskmaster’
Cabinet secretary says that tech presents challenges as well as opportunities
GDS to build GOV.UK app to access hundreds of services
Smartphone platform will form part of wider One Login programme
Government guidance encourages use of instant messaging rather than email for ‘routine communications’
Documents released to High Court reveal civil servants are told to switch message history off where possible
The business case for IT upgrades and a surfeit of sign-ins – five things we learned about the future of digital government
At techUK’s recent annual public sector tech conference, government’s digital leaders discussed their plans for the months ahead and the challenges they currently face. PublicTechnology listened in.
‘A country with world-class data analysis expertise should not have faced this crisis with virtually no data’
Parliamentary report on the lessons learned from the response to the coronavirus pandemic finds ‘major deficiencies in the machinery of government’