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Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The biggest breach saw about 27,000 people affected in June 2007, when a disgruntled contractor working for the MoJ gave a journalist names, addresses and bank details from a list of MoJ suppliers kept on "inadequately protected" electronic... [25 Jul 2008]
Health trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it has pulled out of the national NHS IT electronic care record programme because it has lost confidence in the project following the departure of key supplier Fujitsu. [22 Jul 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News Barnaby Davis, director of electronic banking at Barclays, said last year that the arrangement was intended to limit the damage that could be caused by someone using stolen bank details. The UK's third-largest bank said this week that it has... [18 Jul 2008]
Soham report IT systems still not in place
News Meanwhile the electronic transfer of court results to the Police National Computer will not start working until August 2008 and systems to join up information about criminal records held overseas have not "progressed very quickly", an independent... [17 Jul 2008]
Dunelm Mill signs Epos maintenance deal
News Value home furnishings retailer Dunelm Mill has signed an electronic point of sale maintenance contract to support its store portfolio expansion and drive sales. The retailer has signed up Vista Retail Support to maintain its estate of around 720... [16 Jul 2008]
Red Cross invests in Epos system
News The British Red Cross has signed a deal with Cybertill to install up to 430 electronic point of sale (Epos) terminals as part of a £12m store refresh and expansion over five years. Currently each store at the charity's retail outlets has electronic... [14 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]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News Other IT systems have been cut down, with "financial constraints" forcing funding for the iRecords electronic document management system to be cut from £26.5m to £5.1m and predicted spend on an FCO web platform reduced from £13.5m to £9.7m. [07 Jul 2008]
Viacom vs Google: YouTube privacy fears
News Privacy activists from the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a blog post the order "threatens to expose deeply private information" and violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, a 1988 federal law passed after Supreme Court nominee Robert... [04 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News Amendments to the directive would require "providers of electronic services to inform users of breaches of data protection" and will be voted on by the EU later this year. The UK's privacy watchdog says the country is a step closer to getting a law... [03 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News 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. Any transitional support and maintenance arrangements... [02 Jul 2008]
Gov't slams Fujitsu's "core contract" NHS IT failings
News Bradshaw said talks had been going on since last summer with the vendor responsible for delivering the electronic care records system in the south of England. Fujitsu Service's £896m NHS IT contract was terminated because of its inability to... [26 Jun 2008]
RIM quarter profits up
News RIM's shares, which had risen roughly 20 per cent since early April, dropped 7.9 per cent in after-hours electronic trading to $131.10 from their regular-session close of $142.34 on Nasdaq. RIM posted a profit outlook yesterday that fell short of... [26 Jun 2008]
London Stock Exchange to ramp up electronic trading
News The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of its electronic trading platform TradElect with promises of exponential increases in volumes over the next couple of years. [20 Jun 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first stored-program, electronic, digital computer flickered into life in a laboratory at the University of Manchester. The computer was immediately nicknamed 'Baby' - something of a... [20 Jun 2008]
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