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RSS tsarIT tsar confirmed: Cabinet Office names Angela Smith
News Cabinet Office names Angela Smith as IT tsar The Cabinet Office has named Angela Smith as responsible for government IT and information security. According to the list of ministerial responsibilities released this week,... [16 Oct 2009]
Twitter? Not for me, thanks
News At the same time as the surge in usage, the government has appointed a Twitter Tsar. It appears silicon.com readers don't have a lot of time for microblogging at the moment. In the latest silicon.com poll, readers were... [26 May 2009]
Whitehall hires a Twitter tsar
News The government's deputy CIO has been named as the UK's first director of digital engagement. Andrew Stott, a Cambridge graduate with a degree in mathematics and law who has been deputy CIO since September 2004, started his new job... [14 May 2009]
Calling 'Mister Cyber Security': EU needs super cyber cop
News Europe needs a 'Mister Cyber Security' as we have a 'Mister Foreign Affairs', a security tsar with authority to act immediately if a cyber attack is underway, a Cyber Cop in charge of the co-ordination of our forces and... [28 Apr 2009]
Obama 'needs new cyber-security tsar'
News The Department of Homeland Security has failed to ensure the nation's cybersecurity, a new report to be released Monday concludes, because the threat of cyberattacks is too vast for any one agency to tackle and must be addressed by a new... [08 Dec 2008]
Privacy tsar to fine firms recklessly losing data
News Whitehall will lay bare its handling of public data under plans to supercharge the office of the UK privacy tsar. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will gain powers to fine companies that recklessly lose data... [25 Nov 2008]
EU privacy law shake-up to force data breach confessions
News Banks, other businesses and authorities could soon be forced to confess to data breaches according to the EU privacy tsar. European data protection supervisor Peter Hustinx said there is growing pressure within the... [28 Oct 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News The UK's privacy tsar has made a plea to the government not to rush through a centralised database of all UK communications. Speaking at the launch of the Information Commissioner Officer's Annual Report 2008 Information... [15 Jul 2008]
e-Crime Crackdown: Timeline
News UK MP calls for UK e-crime tsar UK citizens and businesses have weathered unrelenting attacks from online phishers and hackers in recent years, while witnessing a gradual erosion of the ability of police forces to deal... [12 Mar 2008]
Leader: How to put out the fires of ID fraud
Leader And so it's a welcome move that MPs in the All Party Group on Identity Fraud have furthered the debate by calling for an "identity fraud tsar" to tackle this growing crime and co-ordinate the fight against it. [08 Oct 2007]
Tech tsar to build government strategy
News The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has appointed Iain Gilmour Gray as chief executive of the Technology Strategy Board.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. [19 Sep 2007]
Denise Plumpton
CIO Profile Denise Plumpton has already been dubbed the "jam-buster" and "roads tsar" by the tabloids in her role as the Highways Agency's (HA) first director of information. As well as taking over the HA's existing business... [06 Jun 2007]
US fills top cyber-security post at last
News More than a year after US Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff publicly promised to bring in a top cyber security specialist, he has finally hired one. Chertoff said on Monday that Gregory Garcia, who has been working at a... [19 Sep 2006]
'Technology our only hope of cutting spam'
News News from the 'war room' is sounding bleak for proponents of legislation and regulation as a plausible cure to spam email, with the UK's Information Commissioner all but admitting technology is now our only hope. [12 Dec 2005]
MP calls for UK e-crime tsar
News An MP has called for the creation of a cyber-security tsar and a national agency to combat the growing threat of cyber crime. Mark Pritchard, Conservative MP for The Wrekin, used an adjournment debate last Wednesday to... [29 Nov 2005]
