Immigration minister indicates that various courses of action will be examined before any legislation is passed

PAC criticises conception and rollout of scheme, and plan for its future

Department gets rid of data where it did not have ‘explicit consent’ of users

Report gives Whitehall above-average scores in every area except digital services

Two in five resolvable FOIs were rejected in 2018, with six departments knocking back more than half of public enquiries

RCGP publishes tech manifesto instructing health secretary to ‘get the basics right first’

Sending of messages must be overseen by senior civil servants

The UK remains to be hit by a cyberattack of the highest level of severity, but NCSC chief reiterates that we should ‘expect it at some point’

As retirement of incumbent looms, UK Statistics Authority must decide whether to change job specs

More than 12,000 pieces of government information can now be accessed via smart speaker

National Cyber Security Centre research reveals the most commonly breached passwords

Data-processing notice alludes to new platform for pairing up potential mentors and mentees

London Ambulance Service to kit out 60 staff with devices in 16-week trial

Hospital wishes to enable a ‘transparent view of patient care’

 Health agencies unite with key suppliers to create tool to make information accessible digitally

After two breaches inside a week, department commissions independent assessment of compliance

For the second time inside a week, the Home Office has had to report itself to the UK data regulator, after accidentally sharing email addresses of settled status applicants

Parliamentary committee ‘remains very concerned’ about plan to eschew physical documents

Ten programmes chosen as recipients of £1.5m cash pot

Department informs ICO and launches internal investigation

Digital secretary Jeremy Wright tells web giants that ‘the era of self-regulation is over’