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ICO: HMRC breach - where were the tech safeguards?
News In the wake of the largest-ever data breach to hit the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office has criticised the apparent lack of technological safeguards in government departments and called for "privacy-enhancing technologies" to be built... [23 Nov 2007]
Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains
Comment The loss of the data has led some to call for the scrapping of the ID card project too and reinforced a sense government technology projects will always end in failure. The argument goes something like this: imagine what catastrophes they would be... [21 Nov 2007]
Missing: 25 million child benefit records
News The government has also appointed Kieran Poynter, chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers to investigate HMRC's security procedures. Shadow Chancellor George Osborne called the security breach "catastrophic" and said the government has "compromised the... [20 Nov 2007]
ID cards to cost more than £5.6bn
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. G is for Government IT At least every six months, the government is required to give parliament an estimate of the public cost likely to... [09 Nov 2007]
ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's plans for identity cards. The Home Office has defended the UK ID cards scheme after security expert Frank Abagnale - a one-time confidence trickster made... [25 Oct 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News But the introduction of ePassports is also praised as a model government IT project, delivered on time and within its budget of £62m. Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. [10 Oct 2007]
Businesses call for police cyber crime unit
News Security A to Z From antivirus to zero-day, click here for silicon.com's alphabetical guide to security. He said: "The police will probably end up treating minor e-crimes in the same manner as real life minor crime - their resources simply won't... [08 Oct 2007]
ID cards-based criminal record checks 'are A-OK'
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. Plans for a new service using the government's controversial ID cards scheme to speed up criminal records checks have met with approval... [01 Oct 2007]
Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. G is for Government IT The government is currently conducting a review of the DNA database, which is due to be completed by next February... [05 Sep 2007]
£31m pumped into ID card project
News During the year ending 31 March 2007, the government spent £30.9m on setting up the National Identity Scheme (NIS) - up from the £27.7m expenditure in the previous year, according to Home Office figures.silicon.com's A to Z of ID cards [30 Jul 2007]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. The government has pointed to the successes of its ePassports scheme, claiming 4,000 ineligible visa applications have been blocked due to... [13 Jul 2007]
Techies split over wi-fi health fears
News But the levels recorded were well below government limits and there has been little scientific evidence supporting the argument that wi-fi can be harmful. E is for Email The silicon.com A to Z of wireless [24 May 2007]
Thames becomes giant wi-fi hotspot
News As well as passing trade from tourists and other roaming users Nigel Wesley, CEO of Global Reach Group, said the main source of revenue would be from subscriptions from business, local government and the emergency services. [29 Mar 2007]
Old TV spectrum creating world of wireless
News As part of the UK's switchover to digital television Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell yesterday said the government will fund a £600m scheme to help older and disabled people make the switch more easily. [19 Dec 2006]
Blair-Hitler ID card ad 'not offensive'
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. G is for Government IT The Guardian newspaper, which carried the advert, said it believed the photo did not make a serious comparison... [30 Nov 2006]
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