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600 HMRC workers caught snooping

Staff looking at "personal" and "sensitive" data

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

Public trust eroded: Data breaches to blame
BCS - "We've been telling people this was going to happen"

Tags: data breach, government, hmrc

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

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill
Home Office bill shoots up 2,000 per cent

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

'CopNav' to track Met's police officers
Tagged on the beat

Tags: tag, london, police

BBC iPlayer comes to the Wii
Auntie cosies up with Mario

Tags: tv, nintendo, iplayer

Security 'perfect storm' is a-brewing
RSA: Police resources must be upped

Tags: criminals, government, us, cyber crime

UK businesses: No one cares about cyber attacks!
Calls for dedicated police e-crime unit

Tags: e-crime, cyber crime

Nato allies form cyber defence command
Waging war on online attacks

Tags: cyber, defence, nato

Cyber crime: Police not taking it seriously
Poll: More resources needed, say silicon.com readers

Tags: hacking, police, e-crime

Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line
Computer says "woah"

Tags: road, mod, army

Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals
Seduced by cheap upfront costs…

Tags: compass, outsourcing

Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance
Pen and paper puts on the brakes

Tags: government, data loss, full disclosure

Social networks to stamp out sex offenders
But how effective can the plans be?

Tags: criminals, protection, children, guidelines

UK 'failing on cyber crime'
Tories slam gov't for lack of cash to fight threat

Tags: pceu, cyber crime, e-crime crackdown

IT at fault: Millions pay wrong tax amount
Paye system can't cope

Tags: nao, tax, hmrc

Local gov't CIOs to set national agenda
IT policy shaped locally

Tags: john suffolk, socitm, cio

ICO: Data theft laws must not be axed
Don't give in to pressure, gov't…

Tags: data theft, data loss, ico

More than 1,000 gov't laptops lost since 2001
Calls for end to "shocking carelessness"

Tags: stolen, mobiles, laptops, lost

The high-tech road to happiness
CCTV jam busters

Tags: cars, highways agency, traffic

Driver agency plugs data leaks
Following last year's data debacle...

Tags: government, dsa, data loss

Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...
Stories of the month - March 2008

Tags: android, outsourcing, india, linkedin

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