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The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News Financial minister Jane Kennedy revealed the costs in a written answer to parliament. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. [18 Jul 2008]
Privacy watchdog to get power to raid
News Justice minister Michael Wills said in a statement: "We believe sharpening the information commissioner's teeth will enable him to be a stronger, more effective regulator. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and... [17 Jul 2008]
Government racks up 100 data breaches
News The figures were revealed by justice minister Michael Wills in a written answer to Parliament in response to a question by shadow minister for the cabinet office Francis Maude. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and... [24 Jun 2008]
E-crime unit on track, says police chief
News It comes after Home Office minister Vernon Coaker told a House of Lords science and technology committee that the National Fraud Reporting Centre (NFRC) could take the lead on co-ordinating e-crime investigations nationwide. [13 Jun 2008]
600 HMRC workers caught snooping
News The revelation by Treasury minister Jane Kennedy in a written answer to parliament showed that 192 staff had been disciplined last year, 180 in 2006 and 238 in 2005. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government... [01 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up Both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary are accused of "identity theft" in the posters, which promise to make their fingerprints publicly available if captured. An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy... [11 Apr 2008]
Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints
Photo Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary. The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK citizens for ID cards... [07 Apr 2008]
Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance
News Transport minister Jim Fitzpatrick told Parliament in a written answer: "The agency minimised the impact on its enforcement activities through increased use of encrypted mobile compliance devices, laptops with printing function disabled, and... [04 Apr 2008]
Driver agency plugs data leaks
News Transport minister Jim Fitzpatrick unveiled the data security changes at the DSA in a written answer to Parliament in response to a question by Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and... [28 Mar 2008]
Gov't pledges to take e-crime seriously
News The announcement comes in the wake of an e-crime discussion meeting between Home Office minister Vernon Coaker, Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) representatives and the Metropolitan Police's head of e-crime Charlie McMurdie. [26 Mar 2008]
MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards
News Defence minister Bob Ainsworth admitted that 4,433 ID cards disappeared in 2006 and a further 6,812 went missing from July 2006 to December 2007. They have photographic ID on them, so it would be difficult for them to be used by individuals they... [13 Mar 2008]
Police e-crime funding set for green light?
News McMurdie will meet with Home Office minister Vernon Coaker and Acpo head of crime and British Transport Police chief constable Ian Johnston to discuss the business case for the unit next week. Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, who has just... [12 Mar 2008]
Stolen MoD laptop contains 600,000 records
News Defence minister Des Browne will make a statement today about the latest incident in a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches by the UK government, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing... [21 Jan 2008]
Data breach hits thousands of motorists
News In a statement about the breach to the Northern Ireland Assembly, Department of Environment minister Arlene Foster said the CDs had been tracked at every stage of the handling until they reached the company's central hub in Coventry but said there... [12 Dec 2007]
Downing St responds to silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign
News As part of the campaign silicon.com launched an online petition on the Downing Street website calling for the Prime Minister to improve the reporting of information security breaches in the public and private sectors. [10 Dec 2007]
