Home Office

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....

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

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

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

The tests are being conducted under the controversial Investigatory Powers Act

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

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

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

Move follows statements of disquiet from the technology sector

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