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Comment D is for Database It is worth pointing out that while the physical ID card may be all but dead, the national identity register - a biometric database of the nation - is still all systems go, and this is something critics claim is potentially more...
[07 Mar 2008]
Round-Up And then in smaller text underneath: "To express an interest in joining up so they can stick all your details on a database and then lose them, thereby potentially exposing your personal data to identity fraudsters.
[25 Jan 2008]
Comment The company's GeoPoint database is the central repository for all internet geolocation data gathered by Quova and contains up to 30 geographic and network attributes for almost two billion routable and addressable IP addresses.
[09 Jan 2008]
Comment The sender would have to use software that encrypts the data using strong algorithms encrypting sensitive data at source and tightly controlling and monitoring the way people access the database. A key problem within the public sector is that of...
[21 Dec 2007]
Comment A number of commentators have cast doubts not only over projects such as ID cards or the children's database but also on the transformational government strategy in general. It must enable debate over scope of use and the balance of risk versus...
[17 Dec 2007]
Comment The alternative suggested by BMC's Bishop is to use existing asset management software to build a detailed database of the system and then cross-reference that with information about expected energy usage to build up a picture of energy consumption.
[14 Dec 2007]
Comment No-one trusts the government to manage a huge database.there will be leaks and errors and it's a huge target for identity thieves. We could however have ID cards without a central database, giving each citizen custody of their own data.
[13 Dec 2007]
Comment In Unicenter [CA's systems management service], there are technologies that measure in great detail database performance, down to the level of identifying poorly-written SQL statements that are slowing down performance," says Simon Perry, CA's...
[10 Dec 2007]
Round-Up The UK government is apoplectic with shame and regret this week after it emerged that HMRC lost two CDs containing 25 million records of agents, alternative recipients, children and customers on the child benefit database in the post.
[23 Nov 2007]
Comment D is for Database With the furore over 25 million missing child benefit records, the public sector's use of personal data has never been under greater scrutiny. Addleshaw Goddard's Paul Bentham says biometrics may be hailed as the ultimate security...
[23 Nov 2007]
Leader The HMRC data breach - in which the unencrypted details of 25 million people on the child benefit database were downloaded by a junior official onto a CD and sent, unregistered and unrecorded, by post to the National Audit Office - highlights the...
[22 Nov 2007]
Comment How could auditors have thought it acceptable to be sent the entire database (with only password protection) by (outsourced) internal mail? And when everyone in the country has their ID on the database and the same thing happens?
[22 Nov 2007]
Comment No one should think it's a good idea to download a database containing the confidential details of 25 million individuals and then send in through the post on a CD. From my point of view, it's rare indeed that the subject of two silicon.com...
[21 Nov 2007]
AS Profile His company, Oracle, has fought off and swallowed up the competition to transform itself from one of a number of database specialists to a provider of complete back-end systems. Larry Ellison has been perhaps the most colourful figure in the global...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment Alongside vendors of enterprise location intelligence solutions such as those from Pitney Bowes MapInfo and ESRI, database vendors such as IBM, Oracle and Microsoft have been quick to recognise the power of location data, offering extended spatial...
[09 Oct 2007]
Comment Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database After every police officer in the UK has volunteered to have their DNA on the database, we'll talk about the rest of us. I don't think anybody would disagree with Lord Justice Ledley's opinion that...
[07 Sep 2007]
Comment The term "IT outsourcing" in your story implies that the ID database will be held by a commercial company, with all the problems that may entail. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week?
[16 Aug 2007]
Comment This relationship has differed from - say - three years ago when we were seen by these customers more as just a database vendor. Oracle created a global financial services business unit in June to bring together a number of assets and acquisitions...
[23 Jul 2007]
Round-Up It's worse for techies - as always - with 13 per cent of IT managers (compared to the average of two per cent of more self-secure managers) admitting to being worried about being shown up in their absence by Dave from the database team.
[20 Jul 2007]
Comment Well, ideally we’d like a change in the UK law, so it is in line with what now happens in California every time an e-tailer’s database is cracked or an insurance company employee leaves her laptop in a cab with a list of a million policy holders...
[19 Jul 2007]
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