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Home Office data loss included drug records
News The Home Office has confirmed that the volume of data on a lost memory stick was much larger than originally reported. The Home Office spokesperson said the lost memory stick has not been recovered. Its resource-accounts for 2008-09 show that 377...
[August 27, 2009, 8:46]
Lawyer: Home Office unlikely to U-turn on hacker
News On Friday the Home Office said it would not reconsider its position McKinnon before the outcome of McKinnon's supreme court hearing this week. The case is before the courts, and we don't propose to comment further pending the outcome of the court's...
[June 8, 2009, 15:26]
Home Office defends comms-surveillance plans
News The Home Office has said ministers have not yet decided how to retain data on all communication — but has defended the importance of doing so. The Home Office said the means are still under consideration, but that the aim of collecting all...
[October 9, 2008, 15:27]
Home Office publishes data-sharing guidance
News The Home Office has published a code of practice for data sharing between public- and private-sector organisations. The Home Office said on Thursday that the code was designed to be "overarching", and that encryption was not specified as data could...
[October 9, 2008, 17:18]
Home Office reveals early ID vendors
News The Home Office has listed 3M and nCipher as providers to the early stage of the National Identity Scheme. However, she added that although the Home Office is investigating possible alternatives, "no final method has been decided", and no cost can...
[March 25, 2009, 7:47]
Home Office expands scope of compulsory ID cards
News The Home Office has made a formal request to parliament to increase the scope of ID cards for foreign nationals. Under the proposed regulations, which are part of government plans, applicants under six categories for UK immigration will need to...
[February 12, 2009, 16:32]
Home Office says 'no' to cybercrime figures
News The Home Office will not be recording cybercrime figures, despite investing £25m in a National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) launched on Wednesday. The failure to quantify how much criminal activity is taking place on the Net has become a bone of...
[April 20, 2001, 15:10]
Home Office axes data-loss firm's contract
News The Home Office has terminated one of its contracts with PA Consulting, following the loss of 84,000 prisoners' data. The termination of the contract to administer the prisoner-tracking JTrack system, worth £1.5m, was announced by the Home Office...
[September 10, 2008, 16:48]
Home Office denies e-passports can be faked
News The Home Office has rejected claims made by The Times newspaper that Dutch researchers have been able to fake microchipped UK passports. A spokesperson for the Home Office told GC News that no-one has yet been able to demonstrate that they are able...
[August 7, 2008, 9:00]
Home Office laptop and disc 'bought on eBay'
News The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of one of its laptops, along with an encrypted data disc, on eBay. The technicians at the repair centre, at Leapfrog Computers in Westhoughton, subsequently found an encrypted Home Office disc...
[February 28, 2008, 11:57]
Home Office introduces a dozen ID card readers
News The Home Office has introduced a dozen identity card readers as part of a pilot scheme, having had none earlier this year. In a written parliamentary answer on 11 November, Home Office minister Phil Woolas said that as of 1 October, the Home Office...
[November 16, 2009, 14:39]
Home Office: We got data retention wrong
News The Home Office made a startling admission on Thursday morning that its plans for making ISPs retain details of customer emails and Web surfing have not worked out as it had hoped, and the UK is now "back to square one".
[December 5, 2002, 16:36]
Home Office admits to database breaches
News The Home Office has admitted that the security of its ID and passport service database has been compromised several times, but denied that remote hackers were responsible. In a response to a parliamentary question at the end of last week, the Home...
[August 31, 2006, 9:40]
Home Office admits loss of 3,000 workers' data
News The Home Office has lost the names, nationalities, passport numbers and dates of birth of 3,000 seasonal agricultural workers on two CDs in transit to the UK Borders Authority. The incident, which took place in March, was reported to the...
[August 12, 2008, 8:04]
Home Office: Immigration points system 'will benefit UK'
News Intended to make it easier for highly skilled workers from outside the EU to enter the country to work without first having a job offer or sponsor, the new scheme could boost the skilled workforce in the UK, according to the Home Office.
[March 8, 2006, 15:15]
Home Office looks to high street for ID biometrics
News The Home Office wants to use the tender process to gauge whether businesses such as post offices and banks would be interested in participating in taking fingerprints from people for the scheme, ZDNet UK understands.
[November 5, 2008, 17:11]
Home Office to block Lib Dem MP's entrapment proposal
News The Home Office has said it will block entrapment proposals tabled for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Police Bill that would grant police new powers to crack down on Internet paedophiles. Laws allowing police officers to "entrap" Net...
[February 20, 2001, 6:10]
Home Office to criminalise chatroom meetings
News The home secretary has accepted recommendations made by the Home Office Internet taskforce to criminalise the online "grooming" of children, making it a criminal offence for an Internet paedophile to meet a child offline with the intention of...
[July 20, 2001, 17:18]
Home Office cuts estimated cost of ID-cards scheme
News Smith also told Huhne that the Home Office spent £41.1m on its ID-cards programme in 2003-05. In a separate parliamentary written answer on Thursday, Home Office minister Meg Hillier said that, although the scheme will involve 10 fingerprints being...
[November 25, 2008, 10:20]
Home Office pledges £1.5m to help protect children online
News Home Office minister Beverley Hughes announced the child safety campaign on Monday. In March 2001, the Home Office set up an Internet Taskforce to investigate concerns that paedophiles were using Internet chatrooms to meet children.
[December 3, 2001, 11:38]
