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600 HMRC workers caught snooping

Staff looking at "personal" and "sensitive" data

NHS puts brakes on electronic record system
In the face of criticism

Tags: nhs, cfh

Video app the highway to healthy roads
Council pilots "one-stop-shop" road watch

Tags: video, road, hampshire

Outlawed: Reckless loss of data
"Substantial" fines to deter loss

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power
The US space agency is hoping for a petaflop...

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

Galileo phones home
Test satellite makes contact...

Tags: gps, signal, europe, sat nav

MoD fights data losses with encryption
20,000 laptops up their defences

Tags: security, army, mod

Lie detectors to hunt out benefit cheats
Trial saves thousands in taxpayer money

Tags: dwp, benefits, lie detector

NHS cleans up keyboard act
Hospitals to get 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards...

Tags: hospitals, health, keyboards, connecting for health


Geographic database opens doors to private sector
…and the potential is huge

Tags: local authorities, database

New president takes the reins at Socitm
Newham Borough Council CIO gets the nod...

Tags: cio, newham, local government, richard steel

Top IT job at NHS split into two
And earn £200,000 a pop

Tags: richard granger, cfh, nhs

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year
Keeping it all in one place…

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

House of Lords backs data loss law change
A step closer to becoming a crime?

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID
Now, where did I put that defibrillator?

Tags: wifi, rfid, nhs

Euro e-health getting the right attention
Time to prescribe broadband for your GP?

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

Police e-crime unit set for green light
e-Crime Crackdown: Funding to be approved "in days"

Tags: funding, government, police, e-crime

Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini
Outsourcing extension to cut costs and improve services…

Tags: outsourcing, capgemini, croydon

WEEE takes council computers to Africa
From Brent to Ghana...

Tags: weee, africa, computer aid, council

NHS Choose and Book has health scare
Technical problems put latest version on hold...

Tags: delay, npfit, choose and book, nhs

St Albans council signs £2.5m desktop contract
Staff to get flexible

Tags: desktop, northgate, council

UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent
"Fraudsters clearly aren't giving up"

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, phishing

NHS CIO jumps ship
And crosses to private sector

Tags: granger, cio, department of health, nhs

BBC's Highfield hops off to Kangaroo
iPlayer head to launch pan-broadcaster online TV service

Tags: itv, channel 4, online, iplayer

Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release
Information Tribunal to take another look

Tags: gateway reviews, national identity register, id cards


Case Studies

Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study: How software is helping make video evidence count

Cambridge Uni keeps tabs on web traffic
Case study: How the university tackled a massive increase in users

Tags: servers, management, ssl, university

NHS trusts to save £5.5m from outsourcing contract
Case study: Xerox gives North West a licence to print money

Tags: xerox, outsourcing, nhs

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