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Thank Zuck it's Friday #9 - Home Office 'super database', the software reseller claiming £270m from Microsoft and social media data breaches
Thank Zuck it's Friday #9 - Home Office 'super database', the software reseller claiming £270m from Microsoft and social media data breaches

This week on the IT news podcast the team discusses the Home Office's 'super database' on race, health and biometrics, the British software reseller bringing at £170m claim against Microsoft and the recent data breaches involving both Facebook and LinkedIn....

  • Security
  • 09 April 2021
Home Office is creating a 'super database' on people's race, health and biometrics, report
Home Office is creating a 'super database' on people's race, health and biometrics, report

Data collected also includes people's names, location details, identification numbers and online identifiers

  • Privacy
  • 08 April 2021
Open Rights Group demands Home Office transparency on end-to-end encryption
Open Rights Group demands Home Office transparency on end-to-end encryption

The Home Office is allegedly considering measures to compel Facebook to break encryption on its messaging apps

  • Privacy
  • 07 April 2021
PAC report: Home Office's IT border projects are 'a litany of failures'
PAC report: Home Office's IT border projects are 'a litany of failures'

Delays to the DSAB programme have cost £173m so far

  • Software
  • 15 March 2021
Home Office and ISPs have been testing new mass surveillance tool in secret for two years
Home Office and ISPs have been testing new mass surveillance tool in secret for two years

The tests are being conducted under the controversial Investigatory Powers Act

  • Privacy
  • 12 March 2021
Software errors wipes 'thousands' of arrest records from police databases
Software errors wipes 'thousands' of arrest records from police databases

Home secretary Priti Patel is under fire after a bug led to the loss of 150,000 records from the Police National Computer

  • Threats and Risks
  • 15 January 2021
Five technology design principles to combat domestic abuse
Five technology design principles to combat domestic abuse

Measures technologists can take to ensure the products they create are resistant to coercive control

  • Developer
  • 29 June 2020
System used to filter UK visa applications is biased, migrant rights groups claim
System used to filter UK visa applications is biased, migrant rights groups claim

Legal case filed by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants will force the UK Home Office to explain how its AI system actually works

  • Software
  • 30 October 2019
Home Secretary announces new visa plan for entrepreneurs
Home Secretary announces new visa plan for entrepreneurs

Move follows statements of disquiet from the technology sector

  • Legislation and Regulation
  • 13 June 2018
How the Home Office moved immigration services to the cloud
How the Home Office moved immigration services to the cloud

Last year's cloud services award winners, the Home Office moved to AWS to future-proof its operations

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 27 March 2018
Police to trial mobile fingerprinting on the street in initiative slammed by Liberty
Police to trial mobile fingerprinting on the street in initiative slammed by Liberty

No public or parliamentary debate over police mobile fingerprinting tech trial, argues Liberty

  • Government
  • 12 February 2018
Stop sharing patient data with immigration officials, NHS is told
Stop sharing patient data with immigration officials, NHS is told

House of Commons health committee chair Sarah Woollaston MP slams data sharing deal as a risk to public health

  • Privacy
  • 31 January 2018
71. Sarah Wilkinson
71. Sarah Wilkinson

  • Leadership
  • 26 January 2018
Home Office selects Accenture and Certus in £20m ERP deal
Home Office selects Accenture and Certus in £20m ERP deal

Accenture and Certus win series of contracts with Home Office

  • Government
  • 11 September 2017
Home Office on the lookout for £80k data protection officer ahead of May 2018 GDPR deadline
Home Office on the lookout for £80k data protection officer ahead of May 2018 GDPR deadline

Is an £80k salary really enough for the combination of skills and responsibilities required for the role?

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  • 16 August 2017
'Online fraud has been overlooked by the government', says National Audit Office
'Online fraud has been overlooked by the government', says National Audit Office

Fraud is the most commonly reported crime in England and Wales, but the response to it is inadequate

  • Privacy
  • 30 June 2017
NHS Digital hires Home Office CTO Sarah Wilkinson as its new CEO
NHS Digital hires Home Office CTO Sarah Wilkinson as its new CEO

Wilkinson held senior IT positions at Deutsche Bank, UBS, HSBC and Credit Suisse before transferring to the public sector

  • Health
  • 20 April 2017
Home Office wants to integrate ERP, BI, CRM, HCM and Payroll in new Metis system
Home Office wants to integrate ERP, BI, CRM, HCM and Payroll in new Metis system

G-Cloud procurement will be used for technical integration of Oracle Fusion based ERP system

  • Government
  • 11 April 2017
Watch your back: One in five IT staff 'secretly email colleagues' bosses to point out their failings'
Watch your back: One in five IT staff 'secretly email colleagues' bosses to point out their failings'

Also: Refill the printer sometimes, would you?

  • Strategy
  • 13 December 2016
House of Lords IP Bill debate indicates government still wants backdoors in encrypted communications
House of Lords IP Bill debate indicates government still wants backdoors in encrypted communications

Government seemingly determined to push through encryption back doors

  • Security
  • 14 July 2016
Home Office extends CGI Police National Database deal for three years
Home Office extends CGI Police National Database deal for three years

CGI will be tasked with "disaggregating" relationships with the other suppliers involved in the delivery of the database

  • Police
  • 07 June 2016
Mobile collaboration tools now used by 56 per cent of UK firms, finds HPE Aruba and Economist report
Mobile collaboration tools now used by 56 per cent of UK firms, finds HPE Aruba and Economist report

While 54 per cent of UK businesses now offer hot-desking facilities

  • Mobile Software
  • 27 April 2016
Home Office e-Borders programme set to cost over £1bn without providing the expected benefits - and officials don't seem to care
Home Office e-Borders programme set to cost over £1bn without providing the expected benefits - and officials don't seem to care

The programme is eight years late and is still at least three years away from delivery, says PAC

  • Government
  • 04 March 2016
The top IT contract fiascos
The top IT contract fiascos

Computing counts down some of the biggest disputes between companies and their IT suppliers

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  • 10 February 2016
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