Digital, Data & Technology

Department has put "strict controls on the use of bulk emails" after two data breaches, immigration minister Caroline Nokes says 

Home Office apologises for second data breach to come to light this week

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