A dedicated team with the department will work with Capgemini over the coming months to assess potential options to support sharing of government information to help identify those at risk […]...
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NHS offers £145k for CCIO as tech becomes ‘critical aspect of clinical care’
The health service is seeking a senior leader to act as a conduit between clinical communities and national administration, with a remit to advocate for technology, while understanding its risks […]...
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Stats show new Scottish online hate laws are ‘vital’, minister claims
More than 7,000 reports of hate crimes were made during the first week after laws were introduced in Scotland, as number of recorded crimes more than doubled year on year […]...
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NHS signs £10m deal to support rollout of Palantir data platform
The health service has awarded a contract to KPMG to support the rollout of the controversial new national data system, as well as helping develop services to populate the platform […]...
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Police data requests in rape cases ‘problematic in proportionality and focused on perceived victim credibility’
Home Office report finds that many requests for external data lack the necessary rationale and are often geared to probing a victim’s reliability, rather than establishing facts of the incident […]...
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GOV.UK users can be ‘lost and overwhelmed’, report finds
Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee has claimed that GDS needs to make some overdue improvements to Whitehall’s website, as part of a wider work to improve how government communicates […]...
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Cabinet Office signs deal for centralised triaging of hundreds of government’s online vulnerabilities
Using a service newly established in government, almost 1,000 reports of security weaknesses in government sites are filed by expert researchers each year– many of which identify potential critical issues […]...
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Labour’s NHS plan promises ‘tech entrepreneurs and AI in every hospital’
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has unveiled proposals to digitise the ‘red book’ children’s health record, as part of wider technological reforms of the NHS a Labour government would undertake […]...
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NHS patients in Dumfries and Galloway urged to look out for cyber extortion after data breach
The health board representing the south western region of Scotland was last month hit by a ransomware attack and, after some confidential patient info was released, more publications could follow […]...
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Network Rail to deploy AI-powered ‘crowd monitoring’ at Waterloo station
Automated security technology has been trialled at various transport hubs in recent years, having been developed by a Cumbrian SME backed by funding support from a Ministry of Defence agency […]...
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