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RSS records in newsMinistry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The details of 45,000 people, including criminal records and banking and court information have been lost or compromised in the past year by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The MoJ didn't notify more than 30,000 of the 45,016 affected by the data... [25 Jul 2008]
UK officials going snoop crazy
News More than 1,400 requests per day were made to spy on phone call records and web traffic last year, up on the average of less than 350,000 per year over the previous two years. Officials made more than 500,000 requests to snoop on private phone and... [23 Jul 2008]
Health trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News The Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust (RUH) has stopped the deployment of the Cerner Millennium electronic care records system - part of the £12.7bn national NHS IT modernisation programme. Fujitsu will continue to deliver the system in the... [22 Jul 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News The Metropolitan Police Service mounted a months-long search for the data discs containing 25 million child benefit records after they went missing in October 2007. The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM... [18 Jul 2008]
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News The results fly in the face of figures in the quarterly index by outsourcing adviser TPI, which shows global spending on outsourcing is on track to break records in 2008, with Europe forging the biggest contracts. [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]
Users' privacy wins in YouTube vs Viacom
News YouTube will be allowed to mask important user information from records it must turn over to Viacom, Google said in a blog post yesterday. Google said in a statement: "Viacom and the other litigants have backed off their demand for YouTube user... [15 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News By sticking to a simple lists-and-records model that solves the majority of problems, and resisting the desire to chase diminishing returns, we believe we have created something that is powerful without being bloated. [11 Jul 2008]
Gov't data retention - how much is too much?
News The Earl of Erroll, Merlin Hay, has warned against holding increasing amounts of data - such as proposals to retain internet, email and phone records under the draft Communications Data Bill. Advances in technology could put the UK on the road to a... [10 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News The current process for vetting staff is incredibly rigorous, and includes a criminal-records check. The British Air Transport Association (Bata) said aviation workers were being used as guinea pigs for the scheme. [07 Jul 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News Instances included several thousand records being sent by unencrypted email and transfers of large amount of data on discs to other departments such as the Department for Work and Pensions. HMRC moves to having single customer records across all... [26 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News An EDS employee burns the files, containing the full records of all child benefit claimants at that time, onto two 700MB CD-ROMs. The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's Child Benefit Computer System was declared "deplorable" and "entirely... [26 Jun 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]
Need for "radical change" in gov't data handling
News O'Donnell said: "Recent data losses and thefts have underlined the need for urgent action to improve data protection right across government and to bring about a fundamental change in culture among those who are entrusted with the public's... [26 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News The revelation came as it emerged that records of 894,629 calls made to the Scottish Ambulance Service had gone missing, after a portable hard drive being transported by courier went astray. A number of health trusts are expected to be months late... [24 Jun 2008]
