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Surrey seeks digital leader to help drive £250m annual savings
Newly created role comes with brief to ‘transform service delivery’ of county council
Government invests £15m to boost cybersecurity of Commonwealth nations
Countries also sign cyber cooperation pledge
Work on customs system 'on track', vows HMRC chief
Chief executive of tax agency writes to MPs to update on progress of project to replace CHIEF...
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Government’s lack of action on WannaCry is ‘alarming’ – PAC
Report from MPs says that, a year on from the cyberattack, government and the NHS must now take action
Lords urge government to develop national AI strategy
Select committee claims opening up public data could 'curb power of tech giants'
GDS hunts for head of strategy
Role comes with remit to spearhead strategic vision and oversee rollout of Government Transformation Strategy
Royal Navy plans fleet-wide £2m big-data platform
Supplier sought for project to develop NELSON tool
ONS begins work to help ‘can’t do digital’ group get online for 2021 census
Statistics agency appeals from charity and private sector in promoting digital inclusion
UK and US authorities unite to ‘hold Russia to account’ for sustained cyber offensive
UK National Cyber Security Centre teams up with FBI and others to issue advice in light of malicious exploits targeting network hardware – including consumer routers
MPs raise ‘serious concerns’ about NHS Digital's use of patient data
Select committee repeats request to stop sharing with the Home Office the name and address of suspected immigration offenders, but NHS Digital insists arrangement is ‘in the public interest’
DCMS builds team to set government data strategy
Department recruits for leader of newly created unit dedicated to leading the data policy agenda
Met Police tenders for range of managed services to enable focus on ICT transformation
Force publishes details of four two-year services contracts as it plans transformation initiatives
CCS opens bids for £2.3bn Management Consultancy Framework Two
Creation of deal follows decision to scrap lot one of consultancy vehicle launched last year
Sandwell Council to equip environment officers with body-worn cameras
Metropolitan borough looks to acquire 12 devices to help environmental-protection unit capture incidents
Government targets dark web with £50m cybercrime funding boost
Local police will also receive funding for training and the establishment of dedicated online crime units
Hancock vows 'social media companies are not above the law' after Facebook meeting
Culture secretary talks to executives from embattled internet firm in London in 'robust but constructive' meeting
Government to foster 70 start-ups at £13m London cyber centre
Development in Stratford could create 2,000 jobs, government claims
Department for Transport develops AI tool for handling correspondence
Department's digital team creates machine-learning tool for dealing with public enquiries
NCSC picks IoT, cloud, and cryptojacking among UK plc’s biggest future threats
Cybersecurity agency issues report looking forward to coming dangers and back at year in which DDoS and ransomware hogged the headlines
Police Scotland invests in ‘cyber kiosks’ to extract data from mobile devices
Technology will allow officers to search smartphones under execution of warrant
ICO to make ‘clear policy recommendations’ in light of Facebook data probe
Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham issues update acknowledging changes made by social network but stressing ‘it is too early to say whether they are sufficient under the law’
Rural broadband often three times slower than neighbouring towns, study reveals
Research from County Councils Network show west country and northern England lagging behind
Government's top science and tech advisor starts work
New government chief scientific adviser Dr Patrick Vallance takes up post
West Yorkshire looks to build new online home
Combined authority seeks to unite all its disparate websites into newly designed site