Whitehall job cuts could fund recruitment of top tech talent, report finds
Paper from IfG think tank encourages departments to put savings towards boosting skills in key areas
Tech giants paying ‘significantly more tax’ following HMRC digital services levy
Tax agency raised £83m more than expected during 2021 fiscal year
Public covid probe seeks data leader to take on ‘critical role for the inquiry’s reputation’
Post comes with £70,000-plus salary and responsibility for data protection
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ICO issues warning over ‘emotion analysis technologies’
Regulator claims new systems come with inherent risk of ‘systemic bias, inaccuracy and even discrimination’
Government does ‘not expect public-service disruption’ over UKCloud insolvency
Public sector hosting provider has suspended itself from frameworks after being placed in compulsory liquidation
Government to study ‘key vulnerabilities’ of cloud sector and estimate national cost of outages
Research will consider potential impact of system failure on the country’s finances and way of life
DWP looks to embed machine-readable laws into digital ‘Universal Credit navigator’
Department works with government lawyers and specialist tech firm to pursue ‘rules as code’ project
MPs to probe government property plans in light of ‘seismic shifts to working culture’
Parliamentary committee will examine strategy and implementation to date
Digital and robotics key to HMRC cuts, CEO says
Demand for headcount reductions and other savings can be achieved via use of tech in services and operations, Jim Harra tells MPs
Home secretary Braverman leaves post after sending official document via personal email
Use of personal accounts – which came under scrutiny during the pandemic – is a contravention of government guidelines
For the US government, good design is a civic duty
In light of plans to overhaul USA.gov, YuJune Park of Parsons School of Design explains the revamp must put citizens first
Users report Home Office online system providing wrong person’s immigration details
Minister admits department is ‘aware of technical issues’ in which users are presented with someone else’s status
HMRC property-valuation unit invests in web-mapping tool for ‘historical aerial photographs’
Agency that helps set council tax signs 18-month deal with specialist data firm
Annual public sector financial report faces delays after problems with Treasury IT system
Department’s new OSCAR II platform encountered ‘capacity issues’ over the summer
Royal Navy looks to algorithms and analytics to detect anomalies in helicopters
Ministry signs contract with specialist firm to provide an application for engineers to probe data
HMRC told to step up Covid fraud recovery work
National Audit Office finds that tax agency is ‘falling short’ in efforts to claw back £4.5bn lost to fraud and error in pandemic support programmes
Government seeks new IT provider for property database after scrapping initial deal
Cabinet Office-led project has been delayed after work with original tech partner was cut short
HMRC issues fraud warning after taking down 10,000 websites in a year
Scammers will aim to take advantage during a time of year when many are completing tax returns, department warns
ICO reprimands Home Office after anti-terror documents left at London venue
Department is censured for the second time in 10 days after probe reveals it took seven months to notify watchdog of breach
UK and US close to agreement for ‘free flow of personal data’ across Atlantic
Senior officials from Whitehall and Washington to have annual meeting to discuss tech and data collaboration
Regulators look to synthetic data to tackle financial fraud
Watchdogs experiment with use of artificial information to tackle fraud in which people are tricked into voluntarily sending money
UK places fifth in global ranking of government service design
Report recognises online accessibility but stresses need for unified login service
Information commissioner: ‘I want us to be for all of society – not just those with the resources to access data protection’
Nine months into his post as the UK’s data watchdog, John Edwards tells PublicTechnology that he wants to reach all parts of the citizenry
Government taps Rightmove for parking data in £25k deal
Department for Transport signs contract with online property firm