MPs flag similarities between HMRC’s treatment of Loan Charge contractors and Post Office scandal
The treatment of tens of thousands of IT contractors who are being pursued by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for life-changing amounts of unpaid tax…
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ICO prompts confusion over police cloud legality
The Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has sown confusion over the legality of police forces using US-based cloud providers to process sensitive law enforcement data. Computer…
Unilever provides recipe support to blind and partially sighted shoppers
Unilever has worked with accessibility app developer Be My Eyes to create tools for shoppers who are blind or have low vision. The initial trial…
Cabinet Office publishes 10-point generative AI guidance
The government has published its first stab at a generative AI (GenAI) framework document, which lists 10 principles that developers and government staff using the…
Neighbouring Kent councils hit by simultaneous cyber attacks
Three local authorities in Kent – Canterbury City Council, Dover District Council and Thanet District Council – have fallen victim to near-simultaneous and potentially linked…
Google invests $1bn in expanding UK datacentre footprint with Hertfordshire facility
Google is reinforcing its commitment to the UK by building a $1bn datacentre on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, to provide enterprises with…
Tech firms: Investigatory Powers review will undermine privacy of UK citizens
Government plans to update the UK’s surveillance laws could divert tech companies away from safeguarding the privacy and security of their customers towards meeting the…
AI will create a thousand Post Office scandals
At the same time that UK political parties vie in their condemnation of the Post Office scandal, they unite in their promotion of AI as…
More than 900 subpostmaster convictions wouldn’t have happened without Post Office-backed law change
The IT expert who represented Alan Bates and more than 500 subpostmasters in a High Court case against the Post Office said if changes to…
PSTN switch-off threatens access to adult social care services
London’s chief digital officer (CDO) has raised alarm over the impact of the copper switch-off on adult social care and other vital local government services,…
Gartner: The big IT outsourcing contract returns
Two recent major contracts point to the return of big outsourcing contracts. Earlier in January, Canada Post announced it has entered into an agreement to…
Anger sparked by TV drama forces Fujitsu to put public sector contract bidding on hold
Fujitsu has put bidding for UK public sector contracts on hold during the current public inquiry into the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history,…