Digital, Data & Technology

Department reports itself to Information Commissioner after hundreds of potential victims’ email addresses are wrongly shared

Cabinet secretary admits he was "always uneasy" about the Home Office's overly ambitious ESN programme but insists it's not a failure

Data-enabled technologies can present "major ethical and practical challenges" for public bodies, committee chair Lord Evans says

More than 1,000 pieces of optical and radar data are now available under licence

Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation will look at how algorithms could reflect the biases of their developers

Report calls for 'complete rethink of the structure, funding and oversight of forensic science'

West Midlands, North East and London get document-scanning boost as settled status scheme prepares for full rollout at the end of this month

Current DG of Economic and Domestic secretariat in the Cabinet Office will replace Sue Owen at the start of next month

But director general Kevin Cunnington insists organisation is ‘entirely comfortable with the situation’

Lords urge Home Office to widen promotion and ensure EU citizens have physical documentation of status

Department ramps up number of locations offering support with applications to about 150 – although Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are comparatively poorly served

But department gives no details on security of funding following “successful pilot period”

Government will also provide free access to learning apps

Chair of CDEI also encourages public sector to ‘use AI in ways that delight the citizen’

Troubled eight-year project reaches fruition as technology is to be deployed nationwide in the coming months

Information commissioner also said departments had done the "minimum" work needed to comply with GDPR, but there was "much more to be done"

Outsourcing firm’s chief executive writes to Public Accounts Committee to outline measures taken to improve performance

Shadow Cabinet Office minister joins transparency call, saying openness must be at heart of government in times of great upheaval

Minister reveals that work is ‘deferred’ until after the UK leaves the EU

Department seeks to engage with potential commercial partners

But numbers continue to grow to total of seven million

Department working with suppliers to try and ‘ensure ongoing stability’

Department seeks supplier to help digitise services

The government claims it is ‘working constructively with Apple’