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• November 06, 2024 06 Nov'24

  UK government launches AI assurance platform for enterprises

  The platform is designed to drive demand for the UK’s artificial intelligence assurance sector and help build greater trust in the technology by helping businesses identify and mitigate a range of AI-related risks

• November 06, 2024 06 Nov'24

  Lords shoplifting inquiry calls for facial recognition laws

  A Lords committee has expressed concern about the use of facial recognition technology by retailers to combat shoplifting, and is calling on the government to introduce new laws to ensure there are minimum standards for their deployments

• November 06, 2024 06 Nov'24

  Post Office was reluctant to cut costs despite 143 central staff earning more than £100k

  Former Post Office minister told public inquiry that Post Office boss did not want to cut central costs, despite how many staff were earning more than £100k

• November 06, 2024 06 Nov'24

  Starmer announces tech-enabled crackdown on people smuggling

  The UK government has announced a further £75m of funding for its Border Security Command, meaning it will now have £150m over two years to spend on new technologies and staff

• November 06, 2024 06 Nov'24

  How enterprises can ride the AI coding wave

  GovTech leader urges developers to prioritise value, security and compliance when implementing AI coding tools in enterprise environments

• November 05, 2024 05 Nov'24

  Post Office data breach caused by botched website upgrade

  Data breach exposed personal details of the hundreds of former subpostmasters who had defeated the Post Office in the High Court

• November 04, 2024 04 Nov'24

  Government’s £600,000 offer to Horizon scandal victims was 'political'

  The Post Office was blindsided by the previous government’s decision to offer £600,000 to all subpostmasters wrongly convicted of financial crimes as a result of Horizon failures

• November 04, 2024 04 Nov'24

  Government to roll out Gov.uk Forms across its websites

  The tool, which is already in use, aims to transform how the public fill out applications and information online, making it easier and more intuitive

• November 04, 2024 04 Nov'24

  Financiers isolate Middle East over sanctions-evading paytech

  Cross-border payment system loses support of association of global central banks

• November 01, 2024 01 Nov'24

  CISA looks to global collaboration as fraught US election begins

  The US' CISA cyber agency has unveiled a two-year International Strategic Plan to advance collaboration and improve resilience against shared risks and threats

• November 01, 2024 01 Nov'24

  Outside IR35: What the Autumn Budget’s Employers’ NI changes mean for IT contractors

  The UK government used the Autumn Budget to announce an increase to the amount of Employers’ National Insurance Contributions companies will have to pay, which could have big implications for IT contractors

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  Post Office scandal affected relationships of two-thirds of victims

  The Post Office scandal, regarded as the UK’s widest miscarriage of justice, destroyed the financial wellbeing of former subpostmasters, took away their liberty and inflicted grief on their relationships

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  DWP appoints Helen Wylie as its new chief digital and information officer

  Wylie steps up from chief technology officer to replace her departing boss, Rich Corbridge, to take over one of the largest IT estates in Europe

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  Fujitsu boss to face tough reappearance at Post Office inquiry, following inaction and sidestepping

  Fujitsu’s European boss will have to justify why promises made at the public inquiry months ago have not been followed through

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  Autumn Budget: Employment agencies to take on PAYE processing from umbrella firms from April 2026

  The government has pledged legislation to make employment agencies and end-hirers responsible for making sure contractors pay the right amount of tax, in a clampdown on non-compliant umbrella companies

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  Autumn Budget 2024: Chancellor emphasises importance of tech for UK growth

  In her first budget, Rachel Reeves reiterated the vital role of technology in delivering economic growth and improving productivity and efficiency in public services

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  No simple replacement for digital evidence rules, says Post Office Horizon trial judge

  Judge in Post Office Horizon trial says a more flexible approach to how digital evidence is used in court cases may be required as IT complexity increases

• October 29, 2024 29 Oct'24

  EMEA businesses siphoning budgets to hit NIS2 goals

  With NIS2 now in effect, European business leaders are having to divert budget from elsewhere to achieve compliance

• October 29, 2024 29 Oct'24

  Government urged to introduce 10-year visas for overseas tech graduates

  Labour-linked think tank calls for government to introduce low-cost schemes to boost innovation

• October 29, 2024 29 Oct'24

  Tata Consultancy Services to deliver Irish pension scheme

  Indian IT services giant adds to its growing customer base in the pensions sector with Irish contract win

• October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

  Who is the subject of the Post Office’s Project Tiger investigation?

  The Post Office is listening to a campaigner’s complaints almost a decade after ignoring his more serious accusations and warnings

• October 25, 2024 25 Oct'24

  Lords committee warns about risks of the UK losing its EU data adequacy

  The UK government must work with the European Commission (EC) to secure a renewal of UK’s two data adequacy statuses, says cross-party Lords committee, in stark warning about impacts of losing the ability to seamlessly exchange citizens’ personal ...

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  Government ‘urged’ to overturn all convictions based on Post Office Capture

  Influential group has written to the government calling for legislation to overturn the criminal convictions of former subpostmasters that were based on Capture system data

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  Data bill will boost NHS and police access to data, says government

  The Data Use and Access Bill will pave the way for sharing medical records across the NHS and give police the ability to access databases without having to manually log the reasons for their use

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  Warning shots fired as former subpostmasters have ‘useful’ meeting with Post Office CEO

  Acting CEO meets two campaigning former subpostmasters emphasising need for their input into the Post Office’s future direction, including its branch system development

• October 23, 2024 23 Oct'24

  Federation requests government investigation into third Post Office branch system

  Following public anger over the Horizon scandal and the subsequent unravelling of the controversial Capture system, subpostmaster federation wants third branch IT system to be reviewed

• October 23, 2024 23 Oct'24

  Democracy campaigner to sue Saudi Arabia over Pegasus and QuaDream spyware in UK court

  Pro-democracy campaigner Yahya Assiri given permission to file legal action in London court against Saudi Arabia over its use of Israeli spyware

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Government ‘resets’ pension dashboard programme

  Following a National Audit Office report highlighting failings in the project, the government has set out a revised plan

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Change to rules on computer evidence will be an ‘outcome’ of Post Office scandal

  The executive currently heading up the Post Office’s investigations department has told public inquiry that rules on computer evidence have to change

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Danish government reboots cyber security council amid AI expansion

  Denmark’s government relaunches digital security initiative to protect business sectors and society at large

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Former Post Office IT boss alleged to have misrepresented alternative to in-house build

  Internal Post Office document reveals allegations that former transformation boss misrepresented off-the-shelf option to replace Horizon

• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  Labour signs up to five years of Microsoft AI

  The UK government has signed a deal with Microsoft to reduce the cost of running public sector services using the supplier’s cloud and artificial intelligence technologies

• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  Post Office worker who allegedly told staff to destroy evidence could return, as police investigate

  Post Office to allow employee, who allegedly told staff to destroy evidence of possible interest to public inquiry, to return to work during police investigation

• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  Review of late evidence doesn’t change Post Office Capture system report

  Conclusions reached in government-commissioned report into pre-Horizon software are unchanged after late evidence reviewed

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  Met Police investigating senior Post Office worker over evidence destruction allegation

  Public inquiry evidence confirms that the Metropolitan Police are investigating a senior Post Office staff member regarding instructions to destroy evidence

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  NCSC chief warns of gap in cyber threats and defence capabilities

  The UK and its allies must take collective action to improve their cyber resilience and repel the increasing volume of severe cyber attacks, says NCSC chief

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  Sir Alan Bates tells Prime Minister to guarantee Post Office scandal victim redress by March 2025

  Campaigner tells Keir Starmer to finalise full and final financial redress to victims of the Post Office scandal by March next year, or face legal action

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  EU cyber security bill NIS2 hits compliance deadline

  The EU’s NIS2 bill will harmonise how companies and member states approach cyber security, but its success will depend on how well it is implemented and enforced

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  Philippines leaps forward in e-government with cloud-first strategy

  A common infrastructure and a ‘once-only’ principle have propelled the Philippines up the UN’s E-Government Development Index, streamlining services and bolstering data sovereignty

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  Digitisation forum launched ahead of Norway’s digital strategy

  Norway's government is preparing itself for the future by establishing an advisory hub to support its digital strategies

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  Former police officer heading Post Office operations did nothing to help innocent subpostmasters

  Former chief operating officer did nothing when action could have put a stop to the Post Office wrongful prosecutions

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  Tech and digital skills key to improving police productivity

  The Policing Productivity Review sees data and technology as a way of improving productivity and outcomes, as well as a potential means of restoring diminishing legitimacy, but warns there needs to be a revamp in digital skills, investment and ...

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  UK government unveils AI safety research funding details

  Through its AI Safety Institute, the UK government has committed an initial pot of £4m to fund research into various risks associated with AI technologies, which will increase to £8.5m as the scheme progresses

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  Hillingdon Council commits £9m to tech revamp in digital strategy

  Hillingdon’s three-year digital strategy will see the council fund attempts to modernise its systems and infrastructure, change how residents interact with the local authority and make better use of data

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  NCSC expands school cyber service to academies and private schools

  The National Cyber Security Centre is expanding its PDNS for Schools service to encompass a wider variety of institutions up and down the UK

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  UK sees over £6bn boost in datacentre investments

  Following moves to classify datacentres as critical national infrastructure, a number of US tech providers have announced new UK investments

• October 11, 2024 11 Oct'24

  Post Office believes it took £36m from subpostmasters with unexplained losses

  The Post Office wrongly blamed subpostmasters for unexplained account shortfalls and made them cover losses out of their own pockets - then banked the money itself

• October 11, 2024 11 Oct'24

  Post Office set to axe in-house-developed New Branch IT software

  Troubled business may ditch its plan to build a new core branch system in-house and buy an off-the-shelf alternative

• October 10, 2024 10 Oct'24

  Government launches cyber standard for local authorities

  Local government bodies are being invited to take advantage of a new NCSC-derived Cyber Assessment Framework to help enhance their resilience and ward off cyber attacks

• October 10, 2024 10 Oct'24

  How Recorded Future finds ransomware victims before they get hit

  Threat intel specialists at Recorded Future have shared details of newly developed techniques they are using to disrupt Rhysida ransomware attacks before the gang even has a chance to execute them