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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up Onto another example of bloated, out of shape IT: the government ID card project continues to rumble on regardless, despite nobody seeming to know what the benefits are, and the fact that the Conservatives are promising... [20 Nov 2009]
George Osborne
AS Profile Osborne and the Conservatives want to achieve this by relying on common hardware and open data formats. The Conservatives hope that smaller IT projects will be easier to manage and less prone to delays... [29 Sep 2009]
Tories: We will end the database state
News The Conservatives have said they will cut back on government databases and increase public privacy if they win the next election. The Conservatives have pledged to cut government databases (photo credit:... [17 Sep 2009]
Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News However, that could be about to change: a handful of healthcare institutions are starting to offer online access to records and, if elected, the Conservatives are keen to allow patients to view and update their records... [21 Aug 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News The Conservatives propose abandoning the idea of a single medical record for each patient in England, in favour of separate electronic medical records for each hospital and GP surgery, based on common data formats to... [10 Aug 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo But the scheme faces an uncertain future, as the Conservatives have pledged to scrap ID cards if the party is elected next year. This is the first glimpse at what the British ID card will look like. The design for the... [30 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up Besides, the debacle is doomed anyway if the Conservatives win the next General Election. Phishing has become a constant nuisance for the good denizens of Planet Interweb. Rarely a day goes by when you don't get a badly... [24 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News The Conservatives have also pledged to scrap the scheme if elected next year. The government has spent millions of pounds on a project to provide airport staff with ID cards - despite doubts over whether any workers will... [23 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet Following the announcement of PCeU's creation late last year, the Conservatives and business leaders criticised the level of its funding allocated to the unit - £7m over three years, saying it's not enough to tackle a... [20 Jul 2009]
'Nasa hacker' case raised in parliament
News On Wednesday, the Conservatives called for the extradition treaty between the UK and the US to be reviewed to avoid injustice to those accused, citing the case of McKinnon as an example. The Conservative Party has... [16 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News We will scrutinise these contracts closely but the Conservatives are committed to dropping the ID cards scheme and the national register," shadow immigration minister Damian Green told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on... [13 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News Despite ongoing criticism of the scheme, the Conservatives lost a vote on the motion "That this House believes the government's identity cards scheme should be cancelled immediately", with 293 MP's voting against and 203... [07 Jul 2009]
NHS records, Google and Microsoft: Where do you want your data?
Comment Seven years into the project and the Conservatives want to put it under the knife. The Conservatives have come up with a new vision of how to fix the problems plaguing Labour's £12.7bn revamp of NHS IT -... [07 Jul 2009]
Conservatives: 'Ofcom as we know it will cease to exist'
News If elected, the Conservative Party would take away Ofcom's policy-making functions, David Cameron said on Monday. The Tory leader was making a speech attacking quangos - of which the telecoms regulator is one of the most prominent. [07 Jul 2009]
ID cards U-turn: No compulsory cards for pilots
News The Conservatives have pledged to scrap the ID card scheme should they win the next general election. The government has announced it will drop plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers. Pilots and other... [01 Jul 2009]
