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RSS gchqThe database will be the downfall of the ID card, say experts
News Certain government officials have the right to view it without having to present any justification - the head of the intelligence services, for example, and GCHQ. Whether you're happy to carry an ID card or terrified at the prospect, no one can... [20 May 2004]
C&W secures £8m Group 4 outsourcing deal
News Global Solutions business includes the running of prisons, young offenders' institutes, the transport of hospital patients and even the building and servicing of the new GCHQ. Cable & Wireless has won an £8m communications-outsourcing deal with... [26 Apr 2004]
Liability and Computer Security: Nine Principles
White Paper Banks use computer security mechanisms to transfer liability to their customers; companies use them to transfer liability to their insurers, or (via the public prosecutor) to the taxpayer; and they are also used to shift the blame to other... [25 Feb 2004]
Costly GCHQ move down to pace of IT change
News The rapid pace of change in the IT sector was responsible for a massive increase in the cost of moving the headquarters of GCHQ, the UK's secret electronic monitoring agency, the organisation has admitted. [04 Dec 2003]
Spooks roasted over £450m cost of moving spy systems
News The tenfold increase was only discovered as IT staff at GCHQ in Cheltenham underwent Y2K compliance and realised the original technical transition plan would cause "unacceptable" damage to the continuity of services and leave the spy centre with... [16 Jul 2003]
Spies wanted... apply online
News MI5 and GCHQ, as well as the Atomic Weapons Establishment are advertising online in the hope of taking the cream of this year's crop of university graduates. Wannabe spies and budding nuclear scientists are being encouraged to apply online for... [27 Mar 2003]
British intelligence to get IT crash course
News Under the three-year deal the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will provide an online learning programme to workers at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), one of the civil service departments responsible for British... [22 Jul 2002]
PKI vendors get together on government project
News John Doody, head of information security for CESG (the IT arm of GCHQ), said trials conducted by the agency had persuaded the vendors to make their products work with each other. Government IT agencies have announced success in getting the products... [24 Apr 2002]
BBC more secure than spook central
News Staff at the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) are able to use any PDA they fancy, an inside source said. The source, positioned within IT security at the Department of Transport, Local Government and Regions said the word on PDAs... [31 Jan 2002]
Jack Straw and Ann Widdecombe tipped to win Big Brother
News Other shortlisted nominees are British Telecom, and GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) for what Privacy International describes as "unjustified and unwarranted endemic communications surveillance". [10 Nov 2000]
BT releases encrypted pager for police force
News The Z Page system will encrypt messages up to 170-characters long using an encryption program approved by the Communications Equipment Security Group at GCHQ. BT has released a PC-based encrypted paging service for police officers. [22 Feb 2000]
