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£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News Powers to snoop on the UK's email and internet records will be of limited use in tackling serious crime, the government has admitted. Consultation papers released this week show the government wants to keep the "who", "when" and "where" of... [13 Aug 2008]
Gov't battles EU to use passenger data
News The government attacked the EU draft proposal on PNR saying there was a "real risk" it "would degrade e-Borders by prohibiting the use of PNR data for combating immigration offences. The government is battling European Union (EU) proposals to... [08 Aug 2008]
Welsh Assembly signs e-procurement contract
News The portal, which supports the 'xchangewales' e-procurement programme, was ordered by Value Wales, the procurement arm of the government. Two hundred buyers for the government have been trained to procure goods and services online for central and... [06 Aug 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News Professor of security engineering at Cambridge University Ross Anderson said: "This all goes to show how unwise it would be to rely on the UK government for all authentication. E is for Extradition A van carrying about 3,000 blank ePassports and... [29 Jul 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The government has announced plans to make Whitehall's computer systems wholly carbon neutral by 2020 by adopting various green IT strategies, including automatically powering down PCs, configuring virtual servers and selective deployments of thin... [17 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News We will continue working closely with Ofcom and the government to achieve this. E is for Education Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough £1.5bn into a fibre-access rollout to 10 million homes, an O2 spokesperson told silicon.com... [17 Jul 2008]
Gov't data retention - how much is too much?
News He said the draft bill was unnecessary as government could gain access to all the communications data it needed from ISPs under the existing Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. At present it is unclear whether the draft bill will call for data... [10 Jul 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News G is for Government IT One comment said: "This government ID data base gives me the creeps. E is for EDS People aged 16 to 25 have been using the site MyLifeMyID.org, launched today, to discuss the £4.4bn National Identity Scheme (NIS). [09 Jul 2008]
Are banks going soft on e-crime?
News In its follow up report, the committee also urges the government to make it easier for victims of electronic fraud to get compensation, put funding in place for a central e-crime policing unit and create a data security breach notification law to... [08 Jul 2008]
Prison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News The technological measures were announced by the government on the back of a report by ex-chief constable David Blakey on how to stop drugs getting into prisons. The government welcomed the report and pledged to implement all 10 of Blakey's... [08 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News The CMA, which is part of the British Computer Society (BCS), attacked the government for failing to follow through on its promises regarding NGA. David Harrington, the CMA's director of regulatory affairs, said: "The gap between government... [07 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News Representatives of the aviation industry have said they are being used as political pawns to further the government's controversial ID cards programme. If the government hasn't been able to convince the air industry that ID cards will bring... [07 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News The CMA has called on the government to create a national broadband strategy that will take account of rising demand for next generation access to the internet over the next 12 to 24 months. E is for Education [04 Jul 2008]
Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News Terrorists are increasingly using technology to achieve their aims, according to the government. E is for Extradition In a speech at the Homeland & Border Security Conference 2008 in London on Thursday, Admiral Lord West, parliamentary... [04 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News G is for Government IT E is for EDS The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has scaled back plans to upgrade its electronic passport system. Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport Application (EPA2) project upgrade. [02 Jul 2008]
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