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Cyber expert: UK must boost G-Cloud cyber-skills

...The UK civil service needs to develop general cybersecurity awareness and skills necessary to support... Read more

28 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

G-Cloud project is 'alive and kicking'

...challenges in public G-Cloud implementation, he added. Changing the culture of civil service procurement is a "substantial challenge", he told the London audience.G... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

US judge hears challenge to laptop seizures

...phones and other electronic devices at the border and seize them indefinitely. Civil liberties groups filed the suit in September, challenging the Department of Homeland... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Reid calls for government to recruit hackers

...The civil service needs to change its ethos and recruit 'hackers' — people with the... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

US internet ID scheme to get pilot projects by 2012

...US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC, administration officials downplayed privacy and civil liberties concerns about their proposal, which they said would be led by... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

IT chiefs on list of highest-paid civil servants

...senior IT officials are on the newly published list of top paid civil servants. In the list published by the government to provide greater transparency... Read more

2 June, 2010 by Kable

Andy Nelson becomes UK government CIO

...will take over from Joe Harley, who will be retiring from the civil service at the end of March.Nelson has been heavily involved in... Read more

24 January, 2012 by Sade Laja

Government to list contract opportunities online

...and challenging prime contractors to do more, and breaking up large contracts.Civil servants responsible for running major procurements will be trained in the government... Read more

21 November, 2011 by Staff

Government aims to build in-house IT skills

...target to recruit an average of 20 graduates a year through the civil service's Technology in Business fast stream over the next three years... Read more

1 November, 2011 by Mark Say

Lib Dems back IT skills office for government

...private sectors.It says that with a few exceptions ministers and senior civil servants do not 'get' IT or understand the implications of their technology... Read more

27 September, 2011 by Mark Say

Home Office: Police will retain data on innocent people

...Brokenshire, Home Office minister One of the coalition's key pledges around civil liberties included plans to adopt a Scottish model of DNA retention, whereby... Read more

27 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

UK to join European fingerprint database

...with a view to maximising our country's security, protecting Britain's civil liberties and enhancing our ability to control immigration," the minister added. Central... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Kable

White House pushes cybersecurity ID plan

...of Homeland Security. The move is also likely to please privacy and civil-liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual... Read more

10 January, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

ID card scrappage bill to gain royal assent

...following months and years, we will continue to act decisively to defend civil liberties while protecting the public. I hope we have put the era... Read more

21 December, 2010 by Kable

Home Office targets data storage reforms by 2015

...that as part of its plans to "protect people's freedoms and civil liberties" it will publish the proposals before the end of the year... Read more

10 November, 2010 by Kable

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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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