Let's put emotion aside when asked about national identity cards, and analyse the facts presented by the Identity and Passport Service as if someone had put forward a business case for the deployment of identity cards in your organisation, writes Raj Samani of the ISSA UK Chapter.
Oracle has filed new charges against SAP alleging that its TomorrowNow subsidiary stole Oracle software with the knowledge of SAP executives, according to court papers filed yesterday.
HM Revenue and Customs has suspended its main board after an external review highlighted leadership failings and loss of public confidence in the wake of its loss of two CDs containing child benefit data on 25 million people.
The NHS and Fujitsu, the main supplier of centrally chosen systems to hospitals in the south of England, are expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding as part of renegotiations of a £896m contract signed in January 2004.
Conservative leader David Cameron has outlined his party's IT strategy for government saying there would be a "level playing field for open source software in IT procurement" and no room for projects like the "hubristic NHS supercomputer".
The information commissioner has called on the government to fight off attempts by certain sectors of the media to limit the courts' ability to jail people who deliberately disclose others' personal details.