
Don’t use BCC to email sensitive information, ICO warns
The Information Commissioner’s Office has released updated guidance on email security

Private and proxy data can help locate electric vehicle charging stations
Report encourages the use of new sources of data

Post offices to provide One Login identity checks
In-person document checks will be available at around 1,000 post offices

DWP seeks senior data and analytics officers
Department is recruiting SCS roles to lead on artificial intelligence

Home Office sticks to pledge to clear ‘legacy’ asylum backlog this year – as new cases hit new high
Department has insisted it remains on course to meet the prime minister’s target, while new

Met Police supplier leaks data on officers and staff
Supplier had been commissioned to produce microchipped warrant cards and passes for 47,000 staff and

Online GP registration hits first-year record
New service is used by a fifth of English GP surgeries, saving staff time while

ICO clamps down on ‘text pests’ using business data to proposition customers
Regulator launches online service for people to report instances of employees of organisations taking individuals’

DVLA retains credit reference agency for online identity checks in £2.4m deal
Government agency signs contract with Experian to gain access for three years to software platform

DWP pays compensation over letters and PDFs sent to blind benefit claimants
High Court judgement finds in favour of Londoner Yusuf Ali Osman who brought case against

Manchester seeks tech partner to digitise thousands of firearms licensing documents
Local authority and police issue joint tender inviting bids from firms that could fulfil requirement

DWP amends personal data guidance to reflect use of ‘automated processing in some decision making’
The department updates policies to include explicit reference to use of automated tools in decision

Government expects anti-fraud data unit to deliver ‘significant’ financial results
Established 12 months ago, the Public Sector Fraud Authority was tasked with using information and

UK Space Agency puts £500k into using AI to gain climate insights
Government agency dedicates package of funding to ten individual projects using satellites, Earth observation and

One Login: GDS spends £20m on duo of deals for software and security support
With rollout of new system to be accelerated over the coming months, the Government Digital

HMRC delays closure of CHIEF customs IT system after ‘listening to industry feedback’
Department announces that it will now take a ‘phased approach’ to moving exporters to the

CCS signs £900k deal to help move services from decommissioned government hosting platform into AWS
Procurement agency awards contract to support timely migration from GOV.UK Platform as a Service –

GDS seeks senior manager to create contact centre for One Login user support
Cabinet Office-based digital unit reveals plans to set up dedicated customer support facility, which it