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Department recruiting for 19 roles in Digital Channels team
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NHS launches child health info digital service for parents and clinicians
Health agencies unite with key suppliers to create tool to make information accessible digitally
Home Office to review data-protection set-up
After two breaches inside a week, department commissions independent assessment of compliance
ICO alerted to breach of EU citizens’ data
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
Renewed calls for Home Office to rethink digital-only settled status documentation
Parliamentary committee ‘remains very concerned’ about plan to eschew physical documents
Geospatial data projects picked for government funding
Ten programmes chosen as recipients of £1.5m cash pot
'Admin error' sees Home Office wrongly share data of Windrush victims
Department informs ICO and launches internal investigation
Government unveils plans for social media regulator
Digital secretary Jeremy Wright tells web giants that ‘the era of self-regulation is over’
Police Scotland told to pause rollout of cyber kiosks while legal concerns are addressed
Process of assessing use of technology has been 'sub-standard' committee finds
Tech projects see departments ramp up Brexit staff
There are more than 16,000 civil servants working on Brexit, with departments with the biggest technology workloads dedicating the most employees
London borough fined £145k for sharing data on 200 suspected gang members
Newham Council worker sent email with info including names and address
Government implements open standards for cyberthreat intelligence
Users must adopt TAXII 2 and STIX 2 to analyse and share data on attacks
MI5 reveals plan to fight terror with national data-sharing scheme with local public sector agencies
Domestic intelligence agency looks to improve flow of info between justice agencies, NHS and social services
Foreign Office seeks digital strategy head to spearhead use of emerging tech
Postholder will head up department’s FCO Labs unit
To catch a cyberthief – how the UK’s top online cop aims to ‘stay one step ahead of the bad guys’
Mike Hulett of the National Crime Agency's dedicated cyber unit tells PublicTechnology how the internet has transformed the lives of criminals and those that pursue them
Met Office seeks chief information security officer
National weather service recruiting for security chief
Ethics watchdog to examine use of AI in public services
Committee on Standards in Public Life to conduct review of moral and technical issues facing use of new technology
Space Agency opens library of satellite images for public sector use
More than 1,000 pieces of optical and radar data are now available under licence
Criminal investigation launched into cyberattack that deleted and encrypted Police Federation data
National Crime Agency leading inquiry after malware assault
Government Race Disparity Unit to join data ethics centre in algorithmic bias probe
Investigation will explore possibility of human biases being reinforced by AI systems
Digital expansion has made DCMS ‘safe from extinction’, says departing perm sec
Dame Sue Owen claims the department’s growth into technology and data policy areas has been a success
Government criticised for settled status hotline call charges
Campaign group and politicians urge Home Office to scrap charge of up to 40p per minute