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• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  CCRC refers two more subpostmaster convictions for appeal

  Two more subpostmaster convictions referred to appeal court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Mayor of London announces startup funding

  Seven technology startups working on the Mayor of London’s Poverty Prevention Challenge will receive up to £50,000 each to further develop their proposals, designed to help alleviate the cost-of-living crisis for the capital’s most vulnerable

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  CIO interview: Sean Green, University of East Anglia

  In his role as director of digital and data at the University of East Anglia, Sean Green provides high-performance computing to researchers and manages the diverse needs of a campus with the characteristics of a small town, all while finding the ...

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  CunoFS brings Posix file access to S3 object storage capacity

  Developed out of data compression tools for genomics, PetaGene gateways allow application servers Posix-based file access to the deep data stores of S3 object capacity

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Bank of England’s project to replace ‘beating heart’ is foundation for continuous development

  The Bank of England has reached a major milestone in its core system replacement programme, with next landmark in sight

• July 21, 2023 21 Jul'23

  Government boosts protection for encryption in Online Safety Bill but civil society groups concerned

  House of Lords adopts amendment to require Ofcom to commission a report before requiring technology companies to scan encrypted messages, but drops proposals for judicial oversight

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Online Safety Bill screening measures amount to ‘prior restraint’

  The Open Rights Group is calling on Parliament to reform the Online Safety Bill, on the basis that its content-screening measures would amount to “prior restraint” on freedom of expression

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  BBC outsources IT to India’s Tata Consultancy Services

  TCS continues to build its UK public sector business, with the BBC its latest customer

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  AI and data experts to be brought into government through secondment programme

  The government has announced plans for a secondment programme designed to bring digital experts into government departments

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  ‘Significant gaps’ in UK AI regulation, says Ada Lovelace Institute

  UK government’s plans to diffuse regulatory responsibility for AI among existing regulators will mean the tech is “only partially regulated”, while its data reforms will undercut already-limited existing protections, says Ada Lovelace Institute

• July 18, 2023 18 Jul'23

  NATO membership to drive Nordic cyber security sector growth

  The Nordic cyber security sector will see increasing demand as Finland and Sweden joint NATO

• July 17, 2023 17 Jul'23

  Police Scotland use cloud for biometric data despite clear risks

  Police Scotland confirms it has stored significant volumes of biometric data on a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system despite major ongoing data protection concerns, bringing into question the effectiveness of the current regulatory approach...

• July 13, 2023 13 Jul'23

  Civil society groups call on EU to put human rights at centre of AI Act

  Dozens of civil society groups are calling on EU institutions to prioritise people and human rights in AI legislation as secretive negotiations begin

• July 12, 2023 12 Jul'23

  Digital public services ‘riddled’ with problems, says TUC

  The UK’s increasingly digitised public services are plagued by design, governance and workplace issues that are undermining the government’s stated goal of improving efficiency, but can be alleviated by giving public sector workers a greater say in ...

• July 12, 2023 12 Jul'23

  Forensic Institute provides Hansken viewing method for Dutch lawyers

  Dutch lawyers can now view crypto communication in criminal cases from their own workplace via digital search engine Hansken. Previously, this had to be done at an external location

• July 12, 2023 12 Jul'23

  Ofcom’s online safety preparedness efforts hobbled by government

  Despite Ofcom’s progress so far, UK government changes to the scope and timetable of the Online Safety Bill are hobbling the ability of the regulator to successfully prepare for the new regime

• July 11, 2023 11 Jul'23

  EU formally grants data adequacy to US

  The European Commission has formally granted the US data adequacy, allowing companies and organisations to freely transfer personal data across the Atlantic via the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. But privacy activist Max Schrems has already committed...

• July 11, 2023 11 Jul'23

  Malicious URL volumes soar as cyber criminals pull on Threads

  Malicious actors have been quick to exploit the buzz around Meta’s newly launched Threads platform, with thousands of new suspicious domains registered exploiting its branding

• July 11, 2023 11 Jul'23

  Horizon inquiry adjourned as Post Office disclosure failures threaten to ‘derail’ proceedings

  Statutory public inquiry into Post Office Horizon scandal adjourned because of Post Office disclosure failures, ‘retraumatising’ victims of a scandal that destroyed the lives of thousands of people

• July 10, 2023 10 Jul'23

  Post Office inquiry must examine rule on IT evidence if miscarriages of justice are to be avoided

  Public inquiry must examine role of court rules around use of computer evidence that enabled Post Office to prosecute innocent people

• July 06, 2023 06 Jul'23

  Biometrics watchdog calls for public space surveillance review

  The biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner is calling for a review of public space surveillance to gain a clearer picture about the proliferation of Chinese surveillance technology across the public sector, but warns against applying double...

• July 06, 2023 06 Jul'23

  Privacy campaigners call for UK data adequacy to be revoked

  The European Commission should revoke the UK’s data adequacy if its Data Protection and Digital Information Bill passes, which campaigners argue ‘flies in the face’ of the decision

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  EU judgment sinks Meta’s argument for targeted ads

  The EU Court of Justice has issued a significant judgment against Meta, ruling that national anti-trust bodies can investigate GDPR breaches, disrupting the platform’s entire basis for carrying out targeted advertising

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  Scotland’s Techscaler programme joins forces with CivTech

  The partnership between the scaler programme and the innovation accelerator means CivTech alumni companies will be offered Techscaler membership and gain access to its technology hubs, education initiatives and support

• June 30, 2023 30 Jun'23

  AI can never be given control over combat decisions, Lords told

  Artificial intelligence is technically incapable of distinguishing between the complex contextual factors of combat situations, and will likely never be able to, according to legal and software experts

• June 30, 2023 30 Jun'23

  SGN pens IT service desk outsourcing deal

  Utility company SGN renews its internal IT services managed services contract with new supplier

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  NHS England signs five-year Microsoft 365 contract

  Hot on the heels of its earlier deployment of Microsoft Teams, NHS England is now going all-in on the rest of the software giant’s online productivity tools

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  Brits are using healthcare apps without proper checks

  As mobile health app acceptance increases, people are taking risks by using them without any advice from their medical professionals, finds survey

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  The Finnish Food Authority uses AI to accelerate research

  Researchers have reduced the time taken to get critical insights into potential public health crises and address issues in real-time, through artificial intelligence

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Charity demands transparency in digital universal credit system

  The digital universal credit system needs overhauling to ensure greater transparency over benefit claims and more effective means of redress when things go wrong, says child poverty charity

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Scottish government tech accelerator opens latest funding round

  The Scottish government’s CivTech accelerator is seeking technology businesses to help develop new tools to improve public services, as well as to address pressing social and environmental issues

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  GDPR tax reclaim scheme preys on fears of SMEs

  IT suppliers are a target of companies offering a tax reclaim scheme that preys on small businesses’ fears around General Data Protection Regulation compliance

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Three years on, EncroChat cryptophone hack nets 6,500 arrests and seizures of €900m

  French and Dutch prosecutors say three years after they infiltrated the EncroChat cryptophone network in a novel hacking operation, Europe’s courts are opening the way for more collaboration and data sharing between law enforcement agencies

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  UK AI plans offer ‘inadequate’ human rights protection, says EHRC

  The UK’s equality watchdog says the government must properly consider human rights when implementing rules to regulate artificial intelligence, as current plan offers little protection

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Infosys to acquire Danske Bank Indian IT centre as part of $454m outsourcing deal

  Agreement will accelerate Danske Bank’s digital transformation and widen Infosys’ growing customer base in the Nordic region.

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Johnson Controls opts for container-based app delivery with Portworx

  Buildings management giant built a suite of customer-facing products using containers and opted for Pure Storage Portworx for hybrid cloud container management and data protection

• June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23

  UK pension scheme expands relationship with IT services giant TCS

  Tata Consultancy Services retains contract with UK pension scheme for another decade after extending a contract that was first signed in 2011

• June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23

  Software spending grows fastest as finance firms spend $652bn on tech in 2023

  Banks and investment firms are increasing their spending on IT despite gloomy economic outlook, but priorities have changed

• June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23

  Co-op Group adds nearshore engineering resources

  Manchester headquartered Co-op group adds additional engineering resources as competition for talent in the UK ramps up

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Mizuho Financial Group trials generative AI for development and maintenance

  Japanese bank is working with Fujitsu to explore potential for using generative artificial intelligence technology in system development and maintenance

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth to chair AI Foundation Model Taskforce

  The government has hired tech investor Ian Hogarth to lead its taskforce on artificial intelligence (AI) safety, aiming to tackle the safety challenges presented by AI and build public confidence in the use of the technology

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  Union chief calls for outsourced services to be brought in-house

  Unison general secretary calls on Labour to bring outsourced public sector contracts in-house if they fail to meet certain tests

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Prime minister Rishi Sunak faces pressure from banks to force tech firms to pay for online fraud

  The UK’s major banks have told the prime minister to force tech firms to do more to prevent fraud that the banks end up paying for

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Early June Microsoft outages were result of large-scale DDoS hit

  Investigations into recent outages on Microsoft Azure and Outlook services have turned up evidence of a massive distributed denial-of-service attack

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Jordan’s Ahli Bank launches app on cloud-native platform

  Middle East bank launches app on latest cloud-native banking platform from Google-inspired company

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Visa takeover means economic turmoil won’t slow Tink’s progress

  Tink is one of the pioneers of the open banking sector, and under Visa’s light-touch ownership is continuing to think like a startup

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  Dutch government puts up €123m to address shortage of ICT workers

  Financial injection aimed at improving cooperation between vocational education and business in the Netherlands, and making the tech professions more attractive

• June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23

  BBVA uses AI and analytics services from AWS

  BBVA invests in Amazon Web Services cloud platforms to help transform itself into an organisation driven by AI and data

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030: Progress report

  Halfway into its plan to give the country a makeover by 2030, Saudi Arabia’s emphasis on technology is starting to pay off

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  Pure adds FlashArray//E for QLC capacity option in performance arrays

  Flash storage specialist allows customers lower entry point to less costly quad-level cell flash in file and block access FlashArray//E as part of move towards all-flash in the datacentre