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Government witholds ID card legal advice

News Details of a decision to keep the advice secret were revealed ahead of an expected backbench rebellion in the House of Commons vote on the ID card scheme. Up to 30 Labour MPs could oppose the scheme during the Commons debate on Monday.

[December 20, 2004, 14:40]

BBC prepares to put TV archive on Web

News At this stage, though, the BBC hasn't revealed precise details of the Creative Commons licence that it will use. The BBC has given a major boost to the Creative Commons movement this week by revealing how it plans to open up its archive of...

[May 27, 2004, 16:30]

Government admits over 850 laptops lost since 2002

News Members and staff of the Houses of Commons have had 33 laptops lost and stolen since 2002, although 17 of these were new machines taken in 2005 from the back door of 7 Millbank, and these had not been allocated to users.

[March 27, 2008, 16:01]

Cook reveals hopes for Internet general election

News Internet voting could be a reality for the next general election, the leader of the House of Commons revealed at the weekend. The Commons leader expressed his hope that new technology could be used to entice the under-40's back to the polling booths.

[January 7, 2002, 12:17]

NAO report to critise NHS plans

News According to reports, a transcript of a House of Commons public accounts committee meeting revealed that the report by the NAO's comptroller and auditor general, Sir John Bourn, will set out the failures of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).

[March 23, 2006, 12:50]

Malware hits 8pc of Commons computers

News The information was revealed by Nick Harvey, a Liberal Democrat MP and member of the House of Commons Commission, the body responsible for the administration and services of the House. Nearly 400 computers at the House of Commons needed attention...

[May 21, 2009, 9:19]

Government high-tech plans to shake up Whitehall

News This week, the Commons public accounts committee revealed that over 20 recent government IT projects had been unsuccessful. The government is to launch an electronic information system aimed at streamlining the civil service and eliminating...

[January 11, 2000, 9:34]

MPs reject international security standard

News Responding to a question in Parliament, Liberal Democrat MP Sir Archy Kirkwood, who represents the House of Commons Commission, said the BS7799 security standard will only be used as a guide. The House of Commons Commission is a supervisory body of...

[August 8, 2003, 9:45]

Lost property costs Cabinet Office £100,000

News According to the Commons written answer, the cost of items stolen from Downing Street has more than doubled since Tony Blair moved into office. Earlier this month, The Ministry of Defence (MoD) refused to respond to Parliamentary questions, tabled...

[January 31, 2002, 17:48]

2000 Roundup: Privacy under attack

News Nevertheless, in May, the Bill passed through the House of Commons. The government passed one of its most controversial pieces of surveillance legislation ever during 2000 while the FBI revealed its own online snooping tools.

[December 30, 2000, 6:13]

Government unveils cut-price ID card

News In a rallying call, before next Tuesday's crucial House of Commons vote on the Identity Cards Bill, Clarke said: "In future, the recording of biometrics, such as fingerprints, iris patterns or facial image means that we will have a much stronger...

[October 14, 2005, 16:15]

Welwyn: Home to the world's first Millennium Bug Park

News MP and Leader of the House of Commons Margaret Beckett launched the worlds first 'Bug Park' in Welwyn Garden City on Tuesday, as part of the on-going battle to get small businesses to shake off complacency about the Year 2000 date glitch.

[November 4, 1998, 15:29]

Lib Dems brand 2007 'worst ever year' for privacy

News MPs on the House of Commons Justice Committee are calling for tougher sanctions for government organisations which commit serious breaches of data-protection law. Research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed that 37 million items of personal data...

[January 8, 2008, 15:10]

Lords backs amendment to data-loss law

News The amendment must be sanctioned by the House of Commons before it can become part of the bill. Last week a government-sponsored report revealed the number of security breaches had fallen by a third in the past two years but that spending on...

[April 29, 2008, 8:10]

Government: Our spam laws won't be enough

News Timms told the Spam Summit at the House of Commons on Tuesday that a global approach was needed to combat the growing menace of spam. After we block them, they're on the phone threatening to slit our throats," Linford revealed.

[July 1, 2003, 15:34]

LookBack '98: A year in the life of the Bug

News Speaking last month Margaret Beckett, Leader of the House of Commons, claimed it was not the responsibility of government to make firms take action. Most alarming was when John Evans, chairman of the millennium committee for the Association of...

[December 24, 1998, 6:11]

2000 Roundup: Government tries (hard) to get online

News In April the e-envoy announced the framework for the delivery of e-government but two days later the leader of the House of Commons, Margaret Beckett, accused the government of underestimating the dangers of hacking in its rush to get online.

[December 25, 2000, 6:12]

Open source patent library launched

News The OSDL patent commons project is designed to increase the utility and value of the growing number of patent pledges and promises in the past year by providing a central repository where intellectual property can be held for the benefit of all of...

[August 10, 2005, 12:25]

HMRC letters of apology cost £2.25m

News The financial secretary to the Treasury, Jane Kennedy, revealed the cost in written answers to the House of Commons. The government has admitted it cost £2.25m to send letters of apology to people affected by the loss of 25 million child-benefit...

[January 18, 2008, 7:19]

ID cards bill passes second Commons reading

Talkback Given the fact that this ID card system has been revealed as simply another way to directly target people for advertising, and that (obviously) some government ministers are as corrupt as the conservatives used to be (taking cash to sell ID card...

[June 29, 2005, 16:57]

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