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Round-Up Call it a miserable old cynic but The Round-Up's guessing the government won't lose too much sleep over unclaimed benefits. Now the horse has long since bolted, the government decides to shut the stable door and secure its data.
[09 May 2008]
Comment And whatever happens with the law, government departments will be carefully and scrupulously made exempt from it. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data...
[01 May 2008]
Comment Recently I had a chance to hear the perspective of some senior government technology chiefs on this. As an aside, I'm pretty sure neither the abacus nor the wheel was invented by the government. Government IT chiefs have long been waiting for some...
[30 Apr 2008]
Comment While one German regional government body had a DBI of two, another one from the UK scored 30. Demand on corporate networks for distributed services these days goes well beyond the usual IT tasks. But actually measuring how distributed a business...
[24 Apr 2008]
Round-Up The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK citizens for ID cards, starting next year. The ringleaders need to learn that our fingerprints are not government property.
[11 Apr 2008]
Comment This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals (with one reader demanding prison for the culpable scoundrel…), the latest in the BBC iPlayer vs ISP spat, and social networks clamping down on sex offenders.
[10 Apr 2008]
Comment What we need, other than the exercise of common sense, is to adopt a more universal view of the dangers of unrestricted personal information flow than simply have government warn us all to use paper shredders and regularly check our credit ratings.
[08 Apr 2008]
Round-Up Virtual world inhabitants meeting government policy makers. On the same subject, 1,000 or so government laptops have gone missing. That's largely because it isn't real. But there's a great deal more to come from this opening gambit in this week's...
[04 Apr 2008]
Comment Following that, another topic on readers' radars is the debate over the dangers of mobile phones, and lastly, government laptop losses are ruffling feathers again. The Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) chaos has dominated reader comments this week, with...
[03 Apr 2008]
Comment As with many government IT project disasters in recent years, the big lesson to be learnt from the T5 debacle is that the people and processes are as important - if not more so - than the technology. But T5 promised to be different.
[28 Mar 2008]
Comment Earlier this month, Westminster's Joint Committee on Human Rights criticised the loss of 25 million child benefits records as typical of the government's "lax standards" on protecting personal information.
[27 Mar 2008]
Comment The world has moved on in terms of how innovative projects that use technology are delivered, so must the NHS and the government. Because of the government 'Degrees for All' policy, even the dumbest, most unpromising students get rubbish degrees...
[20 Mar 2008]
Comment Most recently it was the news that government departments had lost more than 1,000 laptops over the past 10 years. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably...
[10 Mar 2008]
Round-Up It was the sound of the government's controversial ID card bandwagon coming to an abrupt halt and executing a rubber-burning u-turn. The government said it was still planning to force foreign nationals living in Britain to register their biometric...
[07 Mar 2008]
Comment If you wondered what the loud screeching of brakes was in Whitehall this week it was the sound of the government attempting to halt the ID cards juggernaut and execute an almighty handbrake u-turn as the wheels started to come off and it...
[07 Mar 2008]
Comment Media companies should stop bleating and giving the government excuses to create more laws, and use some of their vast resources to get their own house in order. ID cards are a really bad idea in light of my experience of government record keeping.
[28 Feb 2008]
Comment That growing influence of serious and organised crime in cyberspace is the focus of representatives from business, finance, government and law enforcement agencies at next week's sixth international e-Crime Congress in London.
[27 Feb 2008]
Comment Inevitably, all of this was ignored by the government. I don't want it to take another data breach - followed by identity thieves exploiting that lost data to rip off the unlucky public - before the government decides to act.
[27 Feb 2008]
Comment In particular, if the government adopts a three-strikes system, where a warning is followed by temporary suspension and ultimately full termination of internet access, it would need to be very carefully targeted at each stage to avoid wrongful...
[22 Feb 2008]
Comment Government admits to 200 more laptop thefts As if these figures aren't scary enough, I notice there is no mention of how many portable hard drives (USB sticks, flash drives etc) staff from the government have lost since 2001.
[21 Feb 2008]
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