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Scottish public sector warned of increased fraud risk
Auditors uncover £15m in fraud and errors and urge vigilance against dangers posed by pandemic...
EXCL: Whitehall departments reported 500 personal data breaches to ICO in FY20
Information request reveals that number of reported incidents increased slightly
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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
Lawfulness of government visa algorithm challenged
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants files judicial review
NAO finds big gaps in Home Office data on illegal immigration and enforcement
Report reveals most recent estimate for people in the country illegally dates from 2005
Government scraps £12m contact-tracing app after finding it does not work on iPhones
UK will switch to Google and Apple system after discovering that less than one in 20 contacts were detected on the latter’s devices by the NHS’s own system
Minister says NHS contact-tracing app ‘isn’t a priority’ and may not launch until winter
Date for possible rollout of technology has been pushed back significantly
Fraud risk too high to host citizenship test remotely, immigration minister claims
Testing centres are now reopen and online tests may be considered in future
Study shows big divide between richer and poorer children in access to IT during lockdown
Study from NFER shines a light on disparities
Norway suspends ‘deeply intrusive’ contact-tracing app and deletes all existing data
The country’s data-protection authority has placed a ban on the collection of information via the software after Amnesty investigation
NHS seeks £7m supplier to take over coronavirus testing website
External provider will need to ensure ‘service is accessible, automated, and successfully scaled’
Contact-tracing app began 11-week load-testing programme in mid-May, documents reveal
Contract with software firm Eggplant runs until end of July
NHS Digital to lead work to supply GPs with coronavirus testing data
Primary care minister says work, which will begin within a couple of weeks, ‘needs to be carefully done to minimise safety risks’
Full customs checks for EU goods to be deferred, report claims
New HMRC system given more breathing room as Border Delivery Group moved from tax agency to Cabinet Office
Using data to better understand the hidden crime of domestic abuse
Criminal justice data shows about 60,000 convictions per year, while public surveys reveal 2.4 million adults experience domestic abuse. The ONS tells PublicTechnology how it has brought together information from a range of sources to help policy makers and support services
Human rights watchdog raises concerns over impact of courts reform on disabled people
EHRC also flags up need for more data on impact of remote hearings
EC warns outside states are sowing coronavirus disinformation in Europe
China and Russia are among those claimed to be undertaking ‘targeted influence operations’
NHS smartphone GP provider shares users’ consultation videos with other people after ‘software error’
ICO alerted to data breach at Babylon Health
HMRC claims Making Tax Digital has generated £200m-plus in extra revenue
Number of personal tax accounts goes past 20 million
DHSC finds that Serco ‘processes have been strengthened’ after contact-tracing data breach
Department says investigation into leaking of email address has been satisfactorily closed