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Parliamentary committee flags up issues with flow of information
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National Infrastructure Bank opens to support investment in digital
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Information commissioner speaks out against current uses of facial recognition
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GDS begins online user monitoring to improve GOV.UK performance
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Social justice: how the police can embrace online channels of citizen communication
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Vaccine passports pose discrimination and data protection risks, MPs find
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Government pledges to ‘set requirement to share data across departments’
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Cabinet Office spends £4.7m on Microsoft licensing deal
Contract signed under terms of public sector-wide MoU
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Scotland appoints leaders for AI strategy
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