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Government appoints task force to help mitigate impact of Huawei ban via ‘diversification’ of telecoms market
A selection of telecoms executives and academics will help deliver a strategy to be published later this year
Contact-tracing app launches today
Major networks announce that use of program will not be taken from data allowances
Tech firms won £18m contracts to help build NHS coronavirus dashboard
Contract data shows Mastek and InterWorks were tasked with building data resource
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GOV.UK to trial personalised accounts
Citizens will be offered the chance to create an online login
Companies House to clamp down on identity fraud with verification tools and better data
Register of companies announces reforms
Shadow minister claims government ‘addicted’ to outsourcing
Rachel Reeves criticises amount of public money spent with private firms
New GDS minister unveils vision for single sign-on
Julia Lopez wants to improve system for citizens to identify themselves
London NHS bodies team up to plan £2m digital mental-health platform for young people
Ten CCGs and trusts look to improve access to remote services
Policy on public sector use of US cloud under review as uncertainty grows over post-Brexit data transfers
GDS and NHS Digital asked to review policies after collapse of Privacy Shield agreement and ongoing lack of data adequacy status with EU
MPs tell Home Office to improve data or ‘the next scandal is around the corner’
Damning report from PAC finds that department has ‘no idea’ about outcomes of its enforcement activities
DCMS taps consultancy to help build transformation plan
Digital department is expecting ‘increased responsibilities’ as government works on coronavirus recovery
Reforms will allow civil service to ‘respond faster and better to the needs of the public’, PM claims
Boris Johnson tells select committee that pandemic response has shown ‘there are some times when we need to move faster’
‘Unless you get the ethics of data right, you'll fail on the effectiveness as well’
The head of the Royal Statistical Society Stian Westlake talks algorithms, politicians and the current ‘favourable wind’ gathering in government behind his profession
The coronavirus ‘infodemic’: truth and conspiracy online
The spread of online misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated a public health crisis. PublicTechnology digs into a recent parliamentary inquiry to find out more about the response from social media companies and government
Personal data of all Welsh coronavirus cases compromised in breach
Public Health Wales says leak that affected more than 18,000 people to have tested positive was attributable to ‘human error’
Hancock hails ‘defining moment’ in virus response as NHS contact-tracing app to launch nationwide this month
Businesses urged to prepare for 24 September
National Data Strategy promises to ‘tackle government culture of risk-aversion’
Document sets out ‘transforming government’s use of data’ as one of five missions
Nuclear power control desk heads for second life as movie star
Government agency sells unit to film studio for £10,200
Government floats £1.4m social-media analytics deal to identify ‘key influencers’ to support Covid messaging
Comms service looks for analytics to identify target audiences
New civil service chief issues call for government to ‘unlock the potential of data’
Incoming cabinet secretary Simon Case praises ‘innovative’ response to coronavirus
Policymakers must start asking difficult questions on the ethics of AI in healthcare
Government needs to begin working with citizens and industry to address the risks created by the use of new technology, according to Jessica Morley and Luciano Floridi of the Oxford Internet Institute
HMRC counts £3.5bn cost of furlough fraud and error
Chief executive Jim Harra claims department will target fraudsters
Digital sector accounts for one in five workers in Scotland’s major cities
Stats show healthy tech industry blossoming in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ministerial caricatures, presidential letters, and overseas stamps – FCDO lifts lid on 300 years of documents
The newly created department has published a full inventory of the nearly 10,000 paper documents that form its archive