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Web traders targeted in £2bn tax dodge crackdown
News In order to crackdown on tax evaders, the PAC recommends HM Revenue and Customs advertises the benefits of joining the "formal economy" to businesses as well as detecting and prosecuting more offenders when they are found. [09 Dec 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data discs. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government... [18 Jul 2008]
Privacy watchdog to get power to raid
News The Poynter Review recently highlighted systematic data handling failures in the HM Revenue & Customs that led to it losing the personal details of 25 million people. Full Disclosure campaign ... [17 Jul 2008]
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News The Data Sharing Review found that measures were needed to restore public trust in the way Whitehall handles information in the wake of high profiled data breaches, such as HM Revenue & Customs losing 25 million people's... [11 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News The IPCC was looking into events leading up to the loss of data and considering whether any criminal conduct or disciplinary offences had been committed by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) staff. Problems of this nature arose... [26 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is taking enforcement action against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for breaching the Data Protection Act. Full Disclosure... [25 Jun 2008]
600 HMRC workers caught snooping
News The government faced condemnation after it emerged that 600 staff at Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have been disciplined for snooping on personal data. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is... [01 May 2008]
UK hit by 100 data breaches in six months
News Organisations continue to lose sensitive personal data - despite high profile cases such as the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data breach, and the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has warned chief executives to... [22 Apr 2008]
Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance
News The ban on removal of laptops and portable devices with unencrypted personal data was introduced across all government departments in the wake of a string of high profile data losses, including the loss of 600,000 personnel details by... [04 Apr 2008]
'Data guardians' keep a watch over HMRC
News Scores of "data guardians" have been employed to protect HM Revenue & Customs from a repeat of the child benefit data scandal. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and... [29 Feb 2008]
Lords take fresh look at data security
News But since the response was published in October last year, the government has been hit by high-profile data breaches such as the loss of confidential data by HM Revenue & Customs. The government's response to the... [22 Feb 2008]
Data breaches: No more than normal
News HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million details of people claiming and receiving child benefit was the catalyst for a surge of data-loss reports, an ICO spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk. [18 Feb 2008]
Poll: Execs should be jailed for data loss
News The poll follows on from the HM Revenue & Customs loss in November 2007 of two CDs containing the details of 25 million people and a flurry of reported incidents since.silicon.com's Full Disclosure... [14 Feb 2008]
Government reveals snooping figures
News Hundreds of UK public bodies are authorised to intercept individuals' communications, including the Ambulance Service and Fire Authorities, the British Transport Police, HM Revenue & Customs, Secret Intelligence Service,... [30 Jan 2008]
Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops
News Sir Edmund Burton, chairman of the Information Advisory Council, is examining weaknesses in the MoD data security procedures and there is an ongoing cross-government review of data handling following HM Revenue and... [22 Jan 2008]
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