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Gov't spends £18m on comms surveillance
News Telecommunications companies and internet service providers have received more than £18m from the government in the past five years to cover the costs of collating databases of communications information, security minister Admiral Lord West... [07 Aug 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News Forrester database analyst Noel Yuhanna said open-source databases can now meet about 80 per cent of existing business application needs. Yuhanna wrote in the Forrester market update: "Open-source databases have come a long way in delivering... [24 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News Thomas said: "Before major new databases are launched careful consideration must be given to the impact on individuals' liberties and on society as a whole. The UK's privacy tsar has made a plea to the government not to rush through a centralised... [15 Jul 2008]
Gov't data retention - how much is too much?
News He predicted that the advent of petabyte storage and advanced "quantum search" algorithms could make it possible for authorities in future to trawl massive databases for behavioural traits which flag people as potential offenders. [10 Jul 2008]
ANPR "ring of steel" watches over Manchester
News A trial of an ANPR-linked database checking system in 2004 ran into trouble because information in the DVLA's databases was so unreliable but the agency claims accuracy has greatly increased since then. [05 Jun 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News He added that the centralising of address data has created significant efficiencies in public sector organisations - some of which previously had up to 150 disparate databases. A national geographical electronic database is now available for... [30 Apr 2008]
Virgin Atlantic passengers flying through check-in
News Passengers at Heathrow's terminal three are flying through check-in thanks to joined up passenger databases.silicon.com Retail & Leisure This relies on a centralised passenger name record database, a system joining up Virgin Atlantic's cargo system... [29 Apr 2008]
IT at fault: Millions pay wrong tax amount
News HMRC admitted its Paye systems had difficulty coping with people who had more than job and said it would move its processing from its 12 regional databases onto one single national database during 2008-09. [02 Apr 2008]
Biometrics cuts days off UK visa processing
News The link to UK databases also helps to ensure visas are not granted to people previously removed from the country or travelling under a false ID. The system speeds up the process by checking a visa applicant's ID and biometrics against a database... [05 Mar 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Semaphore - which checks UK-bound passenger details against databases of banned individuals and passenger name records to assess risk - and Iris - which lets fliers use automated iris scanning gates at several UK airports - have been used as part... [21 Feb 2008]
What Oracle's BEA buy means for users
News Miles explained that as a significant number of people use Oracle databases in conjunction with BEA applications, Oracle would be keen to avoid IBM becoming the owner of that middleware. But he said the addition of the significant BEA customer base... [22 Jan 2008]
FBI proposes global biometric criminal database
News The UK's National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) said it was aware of the proposal and that any such system could be linked into existing law enforcement databases such as Ident1, the UK repository of more than seven million pieces of... [15 Jan 2008]
Gov't needs greater accountability to "ensure security", says Darling
News Kelly said part of the problem lay in the fact that the DVA and DVLA have separate databases. She said, to improve data transfer in future, the databases of the DVA and the DVLA in Swansea would be merged, procedures would be put in place for... [18 Dec 2007]
Gov't not trusted with public data
News Beer said: "The new databases are causing a fair amount of legitimate concern in the public's eyes. The latest security concerns follow worries over the security of public database schemes such as the National Identity Register for the ID cards... [14 Dec 2007]
Microsoft.co.uk defaced
News He added: "When building commercial software for databases, there's a finite amount of time to test it - software is never bug-free. Patrick McLaughlin, the European director of security solutions at database company Oracle, said "software can... [03 Jul 2007]
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