DWP to create departmental content standard
Department works with GDS to create and implement a consistent style for all content
Southwark plans tools to monitor affordable housing
London borough commences development process for two digital services
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...
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Zuckerberg warned to appear before MPs or face formal summons
Select committee claims that, despite appearance of company’s CTO, 39 questions remain unanswered
GDS hunts for head of strategy
Role comes with remit to spearhead strategic vision and oversee rollout of Government Transformation Strategy
MPs raise ‘serious concerns’ about NHS Digital's use of patient data
Select committee repeats request to stop sharing with the Home Office the name and address of suspected immigration offenders, but NHS Digital insists arrangement is ‘in the public interest’
DCMS builds team to set government data strategy
Department recruits for leader of newly created unit dedicated to leading the data policy agenda
NSA: ‘We have not responded to a zero-day in two years – our adversaries are hitting known vulnerabilities’
Cybersecurity unit director reveals how US intelligence agency is working to spread best practice by promoting openness and collaboration
Hancock vows 'social media companies are not above the law' after Facebook meeting
Culture secretary talks to executives from embattled internet firm in London in 'robust but constructive' meeting
Interview: Surveillance Camera Commissioner discusses his mission to protect privacy and human rights
As an ever-greater volume of increasingly sophisticated devices watch us all, PublicTechnology talks to regulator Tony Porter about his office’s role in ensuring surveillance is always used ‘proportionately and sensitively’
ICO to make ‘clear policy recommendations’ in light of Facebook data probe
Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham issues update acknowledging changes made by social network but stressing ‘it is too early to say whether they are sufficient under the law’
Government's top science and tech advisor starts work
New government chief scientific adviser Dr Patrick Vallance takes up post
DHSC takes to Twitter to canvas public opinion on organ donation
Department uses social-media conversation as part of consultation on potential move to opt-out model
London Grid for Learning looks to work with 1,000 new schools in UK expansion
CEO of capital-based not-for-profit trust that helps schools to get the most out of technology discusses plans to expand into the education space outside London and the wider public sector
One in four people now use online GP services
The number of patients using an online account has grown 42% in the last year
Will the government’s latest shared services strategy deliver delight or despair to Whitehall?
Former senior civil servant Andrew Greenway looks at the reasons for both optimism and scepticism as the government embarks on another shared-services rollout
‘Students don’t necessarily want more digital – they just want it used better’
The innovation leaders of higher-education technology body Jisc talk to Gill Hitchcock about spreading digital excellence and developing shared services for UK universities and colleges
Homes England agrees partnership in bid to ‘become digital pioneer’
Housing agency to work with Accenture and FutureGov
More than just mail – inside NHSmail’s O365 integration
Neil Bennett of NHS Digital details the organisation’s improvements to its communications and productivity tools
PM moves government data function from GDS to DCMS
Department also takes over BEIS remit for digital signatures in policy shake-up
Transport for London explores algorithm-powered buses
Capital’s public transport agency seeks market feedback ahead of planned trial
£75k up for grabs as civil service HR chiefs hunt digital big-hitter
Civil Service HR seeks new head of strategy and architecture to set the digital and transformation strategy for key cross-government team
GDPR: Five things we will only discover after 25 May
However well versed the public sector is in the text of the incoming regulation, some questions will not be answered until the law is a living, breathing – and enforcing – entity. With two months until GDPR becomes law, PublicTechnology examines the biggest known unknowns
GP contract promises improved data-collection service and £10m for e-referral uptake
Doctors also set 30% target for amount of patients using online services