Home Office seeks £20m partner for border threat assessments
Supplier sought to support rollout of advance border control service
UK nearing ‘cliff edge’ on post-Brexit police data sharing, MPs warn
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EU citizens without Android devices could have to travel 250 miles to scan documents for settlement scheme pilot
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MPs air more doubts on progress of £1bn courts digitisation scheme
Public Accounts Committee follows the NAO in voicing 'serious concerns' about reform programme
Online tool for jurors launched
System for allowing citizens to respond to a summons goes live today
MoJ offers £100k for leader of data and analysis
Department expresses desire to be ‘data driven’
ICO flags urgent need for laws on political parties’ use of data and hits Facebook with £500k fine
Commissioner’s progress report includes revelations about UKIP’s non-compliance and a six-figure penalty for a pregnancy website that supplied data for Labour Party marketing
Emergency Services Network rollout given red-light warning in annual major projects review
The annual report from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority shows government tech programmes of work are a mixed bag
IT error caused sharing of 150,000 NHS patients’ data against their will
Parliamentary statement reveals that problem with SystmOne application used by GPs meant individuals opt-out choices were not respected
Paramedics to be kitted out with body-worn cameras
Emergency-care workers become the latest public servants to be equipped with the mobile recording technology
HMRC used ‘implied consent’ to collect voiceprints of five million citizens
ICO investigating tax agency after investigation by advocacy group Big Brother Watch
Serious Fraud Office uses artificial intelligence to crack real crimes
Chief technology officer Ben Denison discusses how the organisation is using technology to get on top of increasingly vast and complex cases of bribery, fraud, and corruption
Constituents report MP to ICO over alleged data-protection breach in Facebook post
Data-protection watchdog ‘making enquiries’ after Conservative Gordon Henderson publishes names and partial addresses of local residents who sent him a letter
Don’t Gamble with your password resets!
The cautionary tale of the Leicestershire teenager who hacked high-ranking officials of NATO allies shows the need for improved password security
Norfolk police use drone to rescue man stranded in marshland
Missing man spotted on images provided by flying device
US Cyber Command outlines policy of ‘defending forward’
Command vision document strikes a more confrontational tone
Government and police to set up £1.4m anti-gang social-media unit
New 20-person team to become centre of excellence for understanding and combating gang-related online activity
Online legal aid eligibility checker still runs only on Internet Explorer
No current plans to update service that only works consistently on long-retired browser that cannot be downloaded onto Android and Apple products
Government to implement £70m satellite tracking system for immigration offenders
Home Office seeks software and hardware platform for monitoring those being prosecuted for immigration offences
NPCC leader: ‘Virtually every crime today has a digital footprint’
UK’s leading police officers tell Home Affairs Committee that two in three forces need more capability to deal with cybercrime
HMRC scam website crackdown ‘saves public £2.4m’
Department successfully challenges ownership of more than 100 spoof domains
Collaboration, data, connectivity, skills, and ethics – London CDO previews five core policy areas of smart-city plan
Theo Blackwell discusses how the soon-to-be-published Smarter London Together strategy document will promote common standards and skills, and help councils use planning powers to promote connectivity
DfT seeks open data champion to lead new unit
Department signals intent to make better use of data as role as head of nascent team is advertised
MPs label Home Office DBS digitisation programme ‘a masterclass in incompetence’
Failure of project to improve safeguarding checks also casts doubt on department’s capacity to successfully deliver the Emergency Services Network, report finds