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Time to take a step back on police use of facial recognition
- Editor in chief 18 Oct 2021 -
Do we really want a single digital identity system to access government services?
- Editor in chief 17 Sep 2021 -
The UK government data protection reforms - good for business, but are they good for you?
- Editor in chief 16 Sep 2021
We’ve all seen the detective shows on TV. The cops find a CCTV picture of the likely “perp”. The put-upon junior detective is tasked with wading through a database of photos in the hope of finding ...
Is the UK government about to make a new announcement on its plans for a single digital identity for citizens to access online public services? On 22 September, two seemingly coordinated ...
This is a guest post by Computer Weekly security editor Alex Scroxton, which features in the 21 September issue of the Computer Weekly digital magazine as its leader column. It is hard to sum up ...
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UK government set to unveil next steps in digital identity market plan
- Editor in chief 12 Jul 2021 -
Clashing agendas, by David Freud - review: How Universal Credit got there in the end
- Editor in chief 30 Jun 2021 -
The dangers of binary arguments in a complex and relative digital world
- Editor in chief 25 Jun 2021 -
Lack of leadership, confusion and frustration - the state of digital identity in the UK
- Editor in chief 20 Apr 2021 -
Zombified Gov.uk Verify is officially dead - so what's next?
- Editor in chief 26 Mar 2021 -
Industry concerns over government digital identity plans risk a confusing outcome for users
- Editor in chief 23 Feb 2021 -
Unravelling the new digital leadership plans in UK government
- Editor in chief 13 Jan 2021
The next phase of the UK government’s plan to support a market of certified, interoperable digital identity providers is set to kick into gear, with digital infrastructure minister Matt Warman due ...
It was nearly 10 years ago, in October 2011, when Computer Weekly first reported on concerns about the IT project behind Universal Credit. That was five months before the new Coalition government’s ...
In his 1983 book, Modern times: a history of the world from the 1920s to the year 2000, historian Paul Johnson claims the modern world started on 29 May 1919, when astronomers studying a solar ...
To nobody’s surprise, efforts by a group of peers to force the government to accelerate progress on digital identity in the UK foundered in the House of Lords yesterday (20 April 2021). Baroness ...
The UK government has finally admitted in public for the first time that its flagship digital identity programme, Gov.uk Verify, is dead. This will be no surprise to anyone following the project, ...
A flurry of recent activity suggests the government is ramping up its plans for the long-awaited demise of Gov.uk Verify, its failed attempt to produce a digital identity system for online public ...
In September 2019, the then civil service chief executive John Manzoni told Computer Weekly that the new digital leader he wanted to recruit for the UK government would “have to be very wise, very ...
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Don't be the one who gets the blame - the Home Office's biggest lesson in UK borders IT
- Editor in chief 09 Dec 2020 -
What next for digital identity in the UK? Industry welcomes latest DCMS plan
- Editor in chief 24 Nov 2020 -
Why setting IT budgets for 2021 will be harder - and easier - than ever
- Editor in chief 13 Nov 2020 -
The splitting up of IBM is unlikely to end here
- Editor in chief 15 Oct 2020 -
Even GDS is telling GDS to shut down Verify
- Editor in chief 08 Oct 2020
“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it,” or so the oft-repeated quote from philosopher George Santayana goes. Where the UK’s Home Office is concerned, a far more meta version is ...
After months – some would say years – of frustration and delay, tech suppliers have largely welcomed the latest government initiative to establish a digital identity ecosystem in the UK. The ...
It’s the time of year when many IT leaders will be setting budgets for 2021 and trying to persuade their boardroom why they should have more money to invest in technology. After the year we’ve all ...
Thirty years ago, the UK IT scene was led by two dominant suppliers – the global giant, IBM; and the British tech champion, ICL. Snapping at their heels were Hewlett-Packard (HP), Digital Equipment ...
The ailing Gov.uk Verify digital identity system was given a Frankenstein’s monster-like burst of energy back in April, when the lockdown-induced surge in Universal Credit applications brought ...