Government puts £25m into ‘elite fraud squad’ to use data and tech to collar Covid criminals
Chancellor unveils unit that will pursue those who defrauded government of an estimated £5bn during the pandemic
High Court rules that border officials unlawfully seized 2,000 phones from asylum seekers
Judgement finds that Home Office policy breached human rights laws
Treasury urged to provide ‘full, fair and final compensation’ for victims of Horizon IT disaster
Failures of tech system led to more than 700 wrongful convictions
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West Yorkshire Police has teamed up with digital crime specialist at Leeds Beckett University to develop new ways of fighting cybercrime.
Google faces Android probe by European Union
The European Commission has accused Google of using its Android mobile operating system to abuse its dominant position.
Public sector to make use of cyber resilience toolkit
Staff working in a number of public sector bodies will have access to a new information resource to promote cyber resilience within the business community as part of a new project.
European Parliament votes to adopt data protection package
Public bodies have two years to apply new data protection rules following their adoption by the European Parliament.
Trust lacking in public cloud among government ICT pros
Almost a third of government ICT professionals don’t trust the public cloud to keep their data secure – a much higher proportion than the private sector.
Councils' fraud and corruption strategy outlines key digital role
Local authorities must increase their investment in digital technology a part of a radical change in approach to tackling fraud, according to a new government strategy.
Proposals aimed at easing public sector data sharing
Government bodies will be able to share personal data with other “public agencies” as long as the purpose is to improve the welfare of the individual in question, under legislation proposed by the government.
Watchdog warns government to improve fraud data
"Gaps and inconsistencies" in government data make it hard to work out the true scale of fraud in the public sector, according to the public spending watchdog.
Kent councils in anti-fraud data sharing move
Local authorities in Kent have awarded a contract for a data sharing tool to save money by preventing fraud and errors.
Councils to share data to catch fraudsters
A proposed hub to share and analyse data from London’s local authorities in order to detect fraud, is seeking a supplier.
Analytics: the new battleground
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Authorities to seek joint fraud solution
A group of 10 local authorities has unveiled plans to spend £200,000 on a shared intelligence hub to identify and reduce fraud.
Partnership launched to ease data sharing
A new partnership has been launched aimed at making data sharing safer for public services.