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Powys County Council fined £130,000 for disclosing child protection case details

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served a monetary penalty of £130,000 to Powys County Council for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act where the details of a child protection case were sent to the wrong recipient. The penalty is the highest that the ICO has served since it received the power in April [...]

Revising publication schemes under sections 19 and 20 of the Freedom of Information Act

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The ICO has launched a consultation on the revision of its model publication scheme, under sections 19 and 20 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). View the consultation document View the consultation document (Welsh) The closing date of this consultation is 21 December 2011.

ICO asks public to ‘Tell Me More’ about what information public authorities should release

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) launched a consumer campaign aimed at getting the public to offer their views about what information public authorities should proactively release. The ‘Tell Me More’ campaign will run alongside the ICO’s existing consultation on the content of publication schemes – the documents that set out what information a public authority [...]

Justice Committee publishes report on referral fees and the theft of personal data

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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 [...]

Contribution of the digital communications sector to economic growth and productivity in the UK

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As part of the Communications Review, DCMS commissioned consultancy firm, Frontier Economics, to conduct some analysis on the contribution of the communications sector to economic growth and productivity in the UK. The research is presented in two papers: a short stand-alone paper summarising and contextualising the key findings; and a technical paper containing the methodology [...]

Project Pathway – UK’s first live testing of Public Sector Network

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This week sees the successful completion of Project Pathway, heralding the introduction of the UK’s first compliant Public Services Network (PSN) under the auspices of the Government’s ICT Strategy launched earlier this year. Project Pathway involved Hampshire County Council, Kent County Council, Global Crossing, Virgin Media Business and the pan-Government PSN Team working in concert [...]

The UK is a nation addicted to smartphones according to latest Ofcom research.

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New Ofcom research reveals the extent to which the UK has become addicted to smartphones, with people confessing to using them everywhere from the dining table to the bathroom and bedroom. Over a quarter of adults (27 per cent) and almost half of teenagers (47 per cent) now own a smartphone, according to Ofcoms latest [...]

CBI calls for Public Services IT Revolution

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The CBI today called on the Government to harness the potential of information technology to transform public services. In a new report System Reset: Transforming public services through IT, the UK’s leading business group says that making better use of technology could make accessing public services easier for the public and businesses, while saving taxpayers’ [...]

UK-Manchester: library management system

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UK-Manchester: library management system 2011/S 138-229483 CONTRACT NOTICE Services SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY I.1)NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S) The University of Manchester Oxford Road Attn: The Central Procurement Office M13 9PL Manchester UNITED KINGDOM Tel. +44 1612752160 E-mail: procurement@manchester.ac.uk Fax +44 1612752961 Internet address(es) General address of the contracting authority http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ Address of the buyer [...]