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Lib Dems back IT skills office for government

...The Liberal Democrats have said the government should set up a new office to... Read more

27 September, 2011 by Mark Say

Lib Dems push for cloud regulator

...The Liberal Democrats will urge the government to consider the security of cloud computing... Read more

20 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

High Court to review Digital Economy Act

...the general election. The Conservatives backed the Digital Economy Act, but the Liberal Democrats took a strong stance against it. However, despite the Lib Dems... Read more

10 November, 2010 by David Meyer

Lib Dems call for halt to copyright crackdown

The party has adopted a policy paper that calls for partial repeal of the Digital Economy Act, to get rid of powers to block websites and suspend people's accounts if suspected of copyright infringement Read more

20 September, 2011 by David Meyer

Copyright crackdown dominates ISPA 'villain' awards

The ISP Association has nominated backers of the Digital Economy Bill for its 'internet villain' award, while opponents of the bill are nominated for internet hero Read more

9 June, 2010 by David Meyer

ID cards, identity register abolished within 100 days

The government has published legislation that will scrap the national identity card scheme and register within 100 days, with no refunds to early adopters Read more

28 May, 2010 by Kable

NHS IT: Centralised electronic medical records scheme will go ahead

No halt to Summary Care Records rollout Read more

7 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

Tougher interception laws to reach Twitter

The government will introduce a bill to intercept a wider range of internet communications, including those on social networks, and give police wider surveillance powers Read more

9 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Email and web snooping plans draw back-bench fire

...government's Intercept Modernisation Programme, against which both the Tories and the Liberal Democrats argued. Both parties campaigned for the general election claiming they would... Read more

2 April, 2012

MPs torch failed FiReControl project

The project to unify the IT of England's fire and rescue services has been called a 'complete failure' and a waste of £469m by a select committee Read more

20 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

SAP glitch leads to £3.7m in overpayments for Somerset

...review after the Conservatives took control of the county council from the Liberal Democrats in May 2009. This story originally appeared on Guardian Government Computing... Read more

17 August, 2011 by Sade Laja

McKinnon could get Clegg hearing

...a spokeswoman for the deputy prime minister said. Before the election, the Liberal Democrats said they would support McKinnon in his bid to avoid extradition... Read more

15 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Government keeps web-monitoring plan alive

...intercept web communications, despite pre-election pledges from the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to reduce surveillance of citizens. A passage in the newly released... Read more

21 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

ISPs hit back at sharing cost of copyright crackdown

The government has said that ISPs will bear a proportion of the cost of sending warning letters to suspected file-sharers, a decision that has not gone down well with providers Read more

15 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Scrapping of ContactPoint database begins

...scrapping as soon as the coalition government took power. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats always opposed it, as did privacy campaigners who expressed fears over... Read more

6 August, 2010 by David Meyer

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