hm revenue and customs
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) postponed the PAYE system because of uncertainty over whether it was ready to oversee the collection of taxes from about 31 million people.silicon.com Public Sector The suspension of the system comes as a report from the... [21 Jul 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 take data security more seriously. [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. The government launched its consultation on the Information Commissioner's Office... [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 personal data and the... [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 out of the merger of the... [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News Timeline of the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data losses The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's Child Benefit Computer System was declared "deplorable" and "entirely avoidable" in two reports into the data blunder released this week. [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. It is beyond doubt that both Departments have breached Data... [25 Jun 2008]
Taxman unleashes podcasts on the nation
News As the summer holiday season ramps up, HM Revenue & Customs has published a podcast offering advice to travellers on what can and can't be brought back into the UK.silicon.com Public Sector In this latest audio offering from the agency, HMRC... [05 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up And over at the head offices of HM Revenue & Customs, life is returning to normal. More than a third said the integration of phone, iPod and web browser was their favourite feature, while another 27 per cent admitted to going a bit gaga over the... [02 May 2008]
Public trust eroded: Data breaches to blame
News Of the 1,025 respondents, 66 per cent said their trust in government departments had decreased due to information breaches such as the loss of 25 million personal records by HM Revenue & Customs last year. [30 Apr 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 protect staff and customers... [22 Apr 2008]
Data breaches: Don't blame 'stupid' employees
News Ashenden's speech made reference to several recent high-profile security breaches, including the exposure of 25 million individual's records by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in November last year, and the loss of an MoD laptop containing the records... [03 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. HMRC has appointed 37 guardians to monitor data handling and transfer, financial secretary to the Treasury, Jane Kennedy... [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. Disappointed with Whitehall's response to its Personal Internet... [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]
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