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ICO pushes for compulsory data audits

...Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, has said that data-protection audits must be compulsory in local government and the health service to ensure... Read more

17 October, 2011 by Staff

NAO: Government needs 'firm grasp' on open data costs

...to a report on the transparency of public information by the National Audit Office. Since data.gov.uk's creation in 2010, some 8,000... Read more

18 April, 2012 by Gill Hitchcock

Apple: Suppliers still need to clean up their act

...outlining its auditing practices, while saying that it increased the number of audits by 80 percent in 2011 compared to 2010. Apple has released its... Read more

16 January, 2012 by Josh Lowensohn

NAO: Government failed to measure website value

...information about the returns on its investment, the report by the National Audit Office (NAO) said on Friday."It is a good thing that people... Read more

12 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Firms shun ICO's free data-protection health check

...UK's privacy watchdog accepted the offer of a free data-protection audit, information commissioner Christopher Graham said on Wednesday. By comparison, 71 percent of... Read more

6 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

NHS IT will fail to deliver care records, says NAO

...The National Audit Office has published a damning report of NHS information technology, which it... Read more

18 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Siemens tech contract 'will cost the BBC millions'

...corporation more than £10m, according to the public spending watchdog. The National Audit Office report, The BBC's management of its Digital Media Initiative, found... Read more

3 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

CESG: Government risks breaches through patchy audits

...Ashton, CESG As a result of this poor and inconsistent monitoring of audit logs, there could be gaps in awareness about possible attacks and about... Read more

25 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Nasa audit finds PCs for sale without proper data cleaning

...nine were sold anyway. The auditors blamed deficient management processes. "During our audit, we discovered significant weaknesses in the sanitisation and disposal processes for IT... Read more

9 December, 2010 by Tom Espiner

DWP hampered by poor IT, says report

...of-date IT in tackling benefit fraud and error, says the National Audit Office. The spending watchdog's report on minimising the cost of administrative... Read more

25 November, 2010 by Kable

Oracle deal promises £75m in savings for government

...shared services, such as HR and payroll) will be reduced. The National Audit Office (NAO) recently criticised government shared-services centres for not delivering expected... Read more

28 March, 2012 by Sade Laja

NHS may revive 'unworkable' Lorenzo system

...health trusts in the north, Midlands and east of England.The National Audit Office (NAO) severely criticised the pace of the Lorenzo rollout to NHS... Read more

7 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Has £90m been wasted on government websites? Nobody knows...

...information about the returns on its investment, the report by the National Audit Office (NAO) said. Government has failed to measure whether it is getting... Read more

9 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Facebook strikes deal on privacy with FTC

...with third parties and to submit to two decades of annual "privacy audits" to ensure its compliance.The settlement ends a US Federal Trade Commission... Read more

30 November, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Government aims to build in-house IT skills

...of government IT staff at all levels.Earlier this week the National Audit Office published a report, based on a survey of 17 central government... Read more

1 November, 2011 by Mark Say

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