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‘Data no longer needed will be deleted’ – Cabinet Office reveals privacy policy for storing world leaders’ info

Personal information, including sensitive special category data, could be shared with commercial partners, and may be transferred to nations with an adequacy agreement, according to policy document for INDEX service […]...
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Maude report calls for GDS and CDDO to be reunited – but incumbent minister rules out ‘significant restructure’

In a major review of Whitehall structures and processes, the minister that oversaw the creation of the Government Digital Service calls for it to be re-merged with its sister unit […]...
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Scottish Government to provide Covid Inquiry 14,000 WhatsApps – but still faces claims of ‘torching evidence’

Although senior ministers have pledged to hand over thousands of messages to the public inquiry, controversy persists over claims many more may have been deleted as a matter of course […]...
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PM’s Whitehall chief ‘cannot recall’ why he turned on disappearing WhatsApps during pandemic

The ongoing public inquiry this week heard evidence from the former principal private secretary to prime minister Boris Johnson, who claimed he did not remember the ‘rationale’ for auto-deleting messages […]...
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Departments’ online services must hit 80% digitisation and user satisfaction to meet ‘great’ standard

Transformation roadmap published last year set a target for two thirds of the 75 services defined as being among government’s most used or critical to meet a defined ‘great’ standard […]...
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