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As part of the Government’s commitment to delivering world-class digital products, the Minister for Cabinet Office Francis Maude announced the Identity Assurance programme would be receiving an extra £10 million in funding. The Identity Assurance programme deals with the way a service provider can be assured that the customer or user is who they say [...]
Two thirds of UK premises to have access to fibre broadband one year early 520 new engineers – most of them ex-armed forces – to be recruited BT today announced two thirds of UK premises will have access to fibre broadband by the end of 2014, one year ahead of its original target of 2015. [...]
Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has called on public sector workers up and down the country to get involved in helping remove the unnecessary burdens and bureaucracy that can get in the way of delivering first class public services. All public sector workers, from nurses to those working in job centres, local Government, [...]
Newcastle Youth Offending Team breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt a laptop containing personal data which was later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The laptop – which contained personal data relating to 100 young people – was reported stolen from a contractor’s home in the Northumbria area in January. [...]
Last Thursday, Chris Chant gave a talk at a cloud-computing event kindly hosted by the Institute for Government in London. Chris is an Executive Director in the Cabinet Office working as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative, and spoke about G-Cloud and what people can expect from it. For those who were unable to make [...]
Custodial sentences should be introduced for breaches of the Data Protection Act, MPs on the Justice Committee urge the Government in a report out today. Report: Referral fees and the theft of personal data: evidence from the Information Commissioner Uncorrected oral evidence: The work of the Information Commissioner Justice Committee Concerns Breaking data protection laws [...]
The Information Commissioner has issued a statement welcoming the support of the Justice Committee. Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham said: “The Government should lose no more time in bringing in appropriate deterrent sentences to combat the unlawful trade in personal data. Lord Justice Leveson’s Inquiry into press standards should not be used as an excuse for [...]
University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing patients’ medical information on two separate occasions, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said. In February, records relating to the treatment of 18 patients were found in a communal waste bin at a residential apartment block. The information had been taken home [...]
As part of its commitment to drive out unnecessary costs and make the UK a world leader in transparency, Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, announced the Government has reduced its spend on Government Procurement cards and bonuses by £60 million and published a wealth of new information. New data published today shows that [...]
Francis Maude today launched a detailed plan for the implementation of the Government’s new ICT Strategy which is projected to deliver around £1.4bn of savings within the next 4 years and help deliver better public services digitally.The Strategic Implementation plan sets out how the vision in the ICT strategy will be translated into real outcomes. [...]
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