Constituents report MP to ICO over alleged data-protection breach in Facebook post
Data-protection watchdog ‘making enquiries’ after Conservative Gordon Henderson publishes names and partial addresses of local residents who sent him a letter
Digital-identity policy function shifted from GDS to DCMS
Move follows the earlier transfer of data policymakers
NHS Digital commits £1.5m to help data sharing between health and social care
Funding to be made available in three streams, addressing current and potential uses of digital...
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PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out three topics that may define the year ahead
Government ditches plans for online voter registration check
Despite recommendations from election regulators, the government has decided that such a tool would be overly costly and complex
ONS kits out researchers with tablets
National statistics agency replaces gives ‘field force’ workers portable computing devices to replace pen and paper
Former No. 10 policy unit flags up ‘great potential’ of data science
Partially government-owned Behavioural Insights Team publishes results of trial schemes and urges Whitehall to take notice
National Infrastructure Commission urges government to lead the way on digital twin projects
Report also encourages the codification of data standards
GDS pledges to learn from coding gaffe that caused GOV.UK search issues
Organisation promises ‘multiple steps’ to ensure mistakes are not repeated
Real-time information rollout has saved the Exchequer more than £400m but many businesses see it as a burden, HMRC report finds
Department publishes evaluation of benefits and challenges of new system
The ten key questions – and nine answers – facing the public sector on GDPR
With less than six months until new data-protection law is introduced, PublicTechnology hears from regulators and data professionals across central and local government about what they see as the major challenges facing them between now and 25 May
Border IT systems ‘unlikely’ to be Brexit-ready by 2019, PAC finds
MPs flag Whitehall’s poor record at delivering critical border programmes
Defra seeks two £90k technology leaders as it centralises group IT function
Department advertises for two deputy director-level posts
Government puts forward changes to surveillance law in light of ECJ ruling
Alterations to so-called ‘snoopers’ charter’ opened for public consultation
PAC censures NHS and DoH after ‘staggering mishandling of data’
Commons committee concludes that NHS England is not doing enough to determine whether patients were harmed by correspondence backlog
NHS Digital offers year-long secondment programme for health and social-care workers
Health-service digital body recruiting for a handful of nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and social workers to take part in pilot scheme
Public sector ‘cannot rely on consent as a legal basis’ for GDPR compliance, warns ICO
Government entities urged to explore one of the four other options available for establishing the lawfulness of data processing
GDS advises against naked domains
Government tells public sector entities to keep ‘www’ in their website URLs
Mobile-voting software and touchscreen-enabled pods – the University of Leeds builds the classroom of the future
Director of digital learning explains how traditional lecture theatres often stymie new teaching methods
Government leads Industrial Strategy with pledge to make UK an AI world leader
White paper also lays out ambition to use technology to address issues of ageing and mobility
UK ‘underperforming’ in government digitisation, EC report concludes
Major study of 34 countries ranks UK is sixth citizen-adoption league table but 19th in terms of digitisation of services
Geospatial Commission launched to 'turn government data into jobs and savings'
Open Data Institute among those to welcome creation of new body
Government offers £190m funding for public sector to install full-fibre networks
Digital minister Hancock continues on quest to lead the UK into a full-fibre future
Reaction round-up - industry welcomes Budget tech investments but insists more can be done
An of commentators from tech businesses and industry bodies offer their thoughts on Philip Hammond's Budget