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Round-Up An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International is offering a reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary. Both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary are...
[11 Apr 2008]
Photo Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary. The spoof posters, seen here, offer the reward for anyone who can lawfully obtain the fingerprints of either...
[07 Apr 2008]
News It's several years since former Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to have achieved "universal internet access for all who want it" in the UK. But the latest statistics from telecoms regulator Ofcom paint a picture of a growing digital divide based...
[07 Apr 2008]
News More government funding will be pumped into security technologies, the prime minister has announced. In his speech, the prime minister also said CPNI will begin to provide a higher level of protection to UK organisations that oversee essential...
[20 Mar 2008]
News The Prime Minister Gordon Brown has reiterated his backing for ID cards this week in the face of accusations his support for the controversial scheme is wavering. During Prime Minister's questions this week the leader of the Conservatives David...
[10 Jan 2008]
News In November, Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave the ICO the power to conduct spot checks on government departments, in light of the HM Revenue & Customs breach which saw 25 million child benefit claimants' details 'lost in the post' - making it the...
[10 Dec 2007]
Round-Up Tories and Liberal Democrats will alternately point and wag fingers with unbridled glee at glowering Gordon as he tries to keep his cool during the hooting and sniggering in Prime Minister's Question Time.
[23 Nov 2007]
Leader The Prime Minister's decision to allow the Information Commissioner to make spot checks on data storage and security at government departments is welcome but it's too little too late. If there's one lesson to come out of the catastrophic...
[22 Nov 2007]
News Prime Minister Gordon Brown said all government departments and agencies will also have their procedures for the storage and use of data checked by security experts. During Prime Minister's questions in the House of Commons yesterday, he said: "We...
[22 Nov 2007]
News However, Sir David Varney, the Prime Minister's adviser on public-service transformation, said the nature of the data to be shared between government departments was still under discussion. The government has been warned increased data sharing...
[12 Nov 2007]
News UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a review to determine how the current right to request flexible working can be extended to parents of older children. Around 14 million UK employees work flexibly, or have done so within the last 12...
[08 Nov 2007]
News The Sunday Mirror also reported that the prime minister plans to scrap the scheme altogether, due to cost and the advice that ID cards will be ineffectual against threats such as terrorism. However a spokesperson for the prime minister's office...
[06 Nov 2007]
News Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a statement: "In recognition for the work of all our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan - and to help our troops stay in touch with home - we will provide additional funding from the reserve to double the number of...
[09 Oct 2007]
News Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to arm police with thousands of "handheld computers" so officers can make more effective use of their time and increase the amount of frontline policing they do.
[26 Sep 2007]
News The 10 Downing Street e-petition, signed by 16,071 people urges the Prime Minister to make the BBC develop its online on-demand TV service - currently only available to Windows XP users - for non-Windows platforms.
[07 Sep 2007]
Comment The scope of his new role is impressive and will include advising the Prime Minister on all aspects of service delivery transformation and the implementation of his report recommendations. The next few years will be critical in showing the real...
[31 Aug 2007]
News The petition urges the Prime Minister to request the BBC develops an iPlayer for non-Windows platforms. More than 16,000 people have now signed an e-petition protesting about the way the BBC has rolled out its on-demand TV service, iPlayer.
[20 Aug 2007]
News Speaking to the House of Commons on 25 July, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said electronic screening of travellers is an essential counter-terrorism measure as the first line of defence against terrorism is overseas, where people begin journeys to...
[02 Aug 2007]
News In addition, an e-petition posted on the 10 Downing Street website, asking the prime minister to instruct the BBC to make the iPlayer cross platform, has clocked up almost 12,500 signatures so far. The BBC's online, on-demand TV iPlayer was...
[27 Jul 2007]
News The OSC isn’t the only group concerned about the iPlayer with more than 11,000 people now having signed a 10 Downing Street e-petition requesting the Prime Minister to take action. The BBC and the Open Source Consortium (OSC) have met to discuss...
[25 Jul 2007]
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