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• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  Kazakhstan’s IT industry growing rapidly thanks to heavy government support

  Kazakhstan’s IT sector is being prepared for international expansion through government investment

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  Apple sues under-fire malware firm NSO

  Lawsuit alleges spyware firm NSO Group targeted Apple’s users, adding to the pressure on the under-fire company

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  Police tech introduced with little scrutiny or training

  A Lords inquiry into the adoption of advanced algorithmic technologies by police in England and Wales has been told that new tools are being introduced without proper training and with little scrutiny of their impacts

• November 23, 2021 23 Nov'21

  Schrems accuses Irish DPC of trying to block publication of Facebook documents

  Austrian lawyer Max Schrems has filed a complaint after the Irish data protection commissioner put his privacy organisation under pressure to sign a non-disclosure agreement

• November 23, 2021 23 Nov'21

  Four-day week introduced for staff at digital bank

  UK’s Atom Bank brings in four-day working week for employees with no salary reduction

• November 23, 2021 23 Nov'21

  CIO interview: Mia Sorgi, director of digital product and experience, PepsiCo Europe

  A trial project using gesture-based technology to help customers order in restaurants is just one example of the pioneering digital innovations being explored by food and drinks giant PepsiCo

• November 23, 2021 23 Nov'21

  NHSX and NHS Digital to merge with NHS England

  Overhaul part of recommendations under a digital delivery review led by NHS Digital chair Laura Wade-Gery

• November 23, 2021 23 Nov'21

  Home secretary urged to respond to concerns over EU travel systems

  Priti Patel is challenged over the various issues relating to new border checks affecting UK residents travelling to the European Union, in aspects such as facial recognition and algorithmic profiling

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  Upcoming holidays prompt ransomware warning from authorities

  Ransomware gangs know how calendars work, and may target their attacks around major holidays to take advantage of more people being off work, according to a new alert

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  More wrongful convictions overturned in Post Office scandal

  Seven more subpostmasters have been cleared after the Post Office charged them for crimes caused by its faulty Horizon software, taking the total of people wrongfully convicted to 72, with more to come

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  Black Friday cyber warning for 4,000 card-skimming victims

  NCSC warns thousands of small retailers that their websites are being exploited to steal customer data

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  CIO interview: Karl Hoods, CDIO, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

  Moving to the cloud, developing staff skills and responding quickly to the pandemic – from a public sector IT leader’s perspective

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  DHSC reluctant to confirm details of digital delivery review

  Sajid Javid heightens expectations around Wade-Gery review at NHS conference, but health department is unable to say when it might be delivered

• November 22, 2021 22 Nov'21

  UK holds international digital government conference

  Countries convened to discuss digital transformation issues and the application to services of technologies such as AI and digital identity.

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  Subpostmasters asked to withdraw support for Post Office scandal inquiry

  Subpostmaster campaign group founder calls for members to withdraw support for public inquiry into Horizon IT scandal over lack of adequate compensation

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  How Axa drives digitisation forward

  Digital transformation is not a one-shot project – it’s a continuous and evolving process that requires a mindset change in IT management

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  Government to legislate to make APP fraud reimbursement mandatory

  UK payments regulator wants to reduce the huge sums of money lost to authorised push payment fraud and is calling on the banking and tech industries to play their part

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  Sky ECC provided free cryptophones to a Canadian police force

  Internal emails disclosed in a US court show how Sky Global supplied sample encrypted phones to a Canadian police force before its phone users became subject to an international police investigation

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  Six more former subpostmasters have convictions overturned

  A total number of 65 subpostmasters have now had criminal convictions overturned in Post Office Horizon scandal

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  AstraZeneca looks at the bigger picture in enterprise social media

  How do you work with people in different time zones and from different cultures and what happens when people leave the company?

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  HMRC should boost data analytics capability, says NAO report

  Department urged to develop its current set-up to better manage the range of taxpayers’ needs it encounters

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in UK due to high fees

  Online retail giant Amazon will stop accepting UK Visa credit card payments from January next year

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  ONS data points to rise in UK tech employment for women

  Female professionals accounted for 71% of the new jobs created between June and September 2021

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Post Office agrees to share privileged legal information with Horizon scandal inquiry

  The Post Office will waive professional legal privilege for documents relating to legal advice it received regarding subpostmaster prosecutions

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  GovTech to enhance Government on Commercial Cloud

  GCC 2.0 will include improvements in user onboarding and provide single credential access to public cloud services and engineering tools, among other areas

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  One-fifth of NCSC-supported cyber incidents linked to Covid-19

  National Cyber Security Centre has helped to thwart multiple cyber incidents that could have seriously disrupted the UK’s response to the pandemic

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Tech suppliers chosen for £5bn NHS digital records framework

  A pool of 46 firms has been selected to deliver digital document solutions and associated hardware and software

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Blueprint for future high street shows tech’s role in creating thriving communities

  Technology will play an important role in creating thriving communities after Covid-19 lockdowns renew interest in local high streets

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Can UAE become a world leader in AI?

  The UAE has launched multiple programmes as it bids to be a world-leading location for artificial intelligence innovation

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  NHS Digital announces sustainability pledge

  NHS Digital outlines its commitments and plans to tackle the net-zero challenge, including a new approach to cloud hosting

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Medtronic ups ante in digital health

  Medtronic wants a slice of the burgeoning digital health market and is teaming up with startups and other organisations in Asia-Pacific’s healthcare ecosystem to raise its game

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  UK government proposes new rules for digital supply chain security

  Proposals could see IT service providers legally required to adhere to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework, among other things

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Video firm gets Qumulo scale-out NAS and super-fine metrics

  Cognacq-Jay Image shunned Scality and Isilon to get Qumulo scale-out NAS for extremely elastic video workloads and built fine-grained metrics to troubleshoot complex processes

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  General Motors restructures IT to develop $25bn software business

  Carmaker has divided its IT function, one part focusing on the back office, the other on its software-defined business opportunity

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Government bodies refuse FOI requests on basis of misleading database search times, says academic

  The Information Commissioner’s Office tells tribunal it would need to bring in external experts to search data using an Excel spreadsheet

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Convictions of eight former subpostmasters in Scotland under review

  The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission is investigating eight potential miscarriages of justice linked with faulty Post Office IT system

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  CaixaBank system normal after migration of millions of customer accounts

  Spain’s CaixaBank has successfully completed the migration of millions of Bankia customers to its systems

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Royal Navy gets £100m electronic warfare boost

  Contract will see new technology deployed to bolster the UK's radar detection capabilities for the Royal Navy

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  New law needed to rein in AI-powered workplace surveillance

  MPs and peers call for new legislation to regulate the growing use of artificial intelligence in the workplace, which is being used to surveil workers’ performance and behaviour

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Oversight of biometrics and surveillance should not go to ICO

  Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Fraser Sampson has panned the UK government’s proposed plan to absorb the functions of those roles under the remit of the information commissioner

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Cost reduction is still the biggest driver of banks’ cloud adoption

  More than 80% of banks now have a clear cloud strategy following a injection of urgency during the Covid-19 pandemic

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  LOTI to develop data ethics governance approach for London

  The technology and innovation office is working on the elements needed to ensure ethical standards in data projects in the capital’s boroughs

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  CaixaBank to complete IT integration of Bankia in two days

  Spanish bank embarks on a massive migration of customer accounts following merger

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Government publishes research on maritime technology sector

  The report outlines opportunities and recommendations for the industry in areas such as autonomous systems and artificial intelligence

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Online sales now account for 34.4% of M&S clothing and home goods

  Ongoing digital transformation sees online sales grow for M&S as pandemic consumer habits continue

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Cambridge Quantum tackles rail optimisation for German operator

  Among the promises of quantum computing is to run combinational optimisation for tasks such as complex train scheduling to minimise disruption

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Finance ombudsman overturns more than three-quarters of bank decisions on APP fraud

  The financial services ombudsman is siding with customers in over 75% of complaints against banks that refuse to repay losses to authorised push payment fraud

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Bank of England loses 161 computing devices in three years

  Bank cannot account for phones, laptops and tablets that have gone missing over the past three years

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Lloyd v Google Supreme Court verdict brings end to privacy class actions against big tech in UK

  A ruling by the Supreme Court has left it financially unviable for individuals to bring class actions in the UK against big tech companies for privacy breaches

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Financial Conduct Authority chooses Aiimi for improved information discovery

  The Financial Conduct Authority has awarded a three-year contract to UK enterprise search firm Aiimi to enable the regulator’s staff to find documents more easily and collaborate better