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Upgrade error exposes taxpayers' data
News The security of Lambeth Council's online council tax payment system was compromised last week, after a routine software upgrade. This included credit card numbers, card expiration dates and council tax numbers.
[August 30, 2005, 13:10]
Police make arrest over eBay sale of council data
News Leicestershire Constabulary has arrested a man following the sale on eBay of a hard drive containing council-tax data from Charnwood Borough Council. The newspaper reported that he had easily recovered files on the drive, including council-tax...
[September 3, 2008, 8:18]
Where is a need?
Talkback I would contend that this is not within the scope of a Council's responsibility and must not be financially supported by tax income. It may well be an exciting innovation to Council executives and will enable them to play, not only with information...
[April 18, 2008, 16:08]
Memo reveals multiple breaches of ID card database
News The breaches of the Customer Information System (CIS), which is run by the Department of Work and Pensions, were revealed in a DWP memo to housing benefit and council tax benefit staff on 15 January. If council staff are able to snoop at our...
[February 25, 2009, 15:59]
US president taps insider for tech post
News Kvamme, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, will be co-chairman of the newly created Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. When he formed his Technology Advisory Council during the presidential campaign, Bush said he would turn frequently to...
[March 29, 2001, 9:51]
Chancellor boosts UK IT industry hopes
News But Ian Grundy, principle planning officer for Ashford District Council does not see how current laws can be improved. Tony Burton, assistant director of the Council for the Protection of Rural England rejects the idea that planning application red...
[November 4, 1998, 16:40]
Lambeth sleepwalks into danger
Leader A tax demand is never welcome, but Lambeth Council has found a new way to sour the pill. Council tax payers who coughed up via the online payments system have been rewarded by a confirmatory email containing all their credit card details - in plain...
[August 31, 2005, 13:30]
Council offers citizens digital identities
News This will allow its 110,000 residents to pay their council tax online and access information on planning applications. Bracknell Forest borough council hit the headlines Wednesday as the first in the UK to offer its citizens secure digital identities.
[January 25, 2001, 8:10]
Council fights benefit fraud through voice analysis
News The west London council has been running a year-long pilot of VRA since May to identify fraudulent housing benefit and council tax claims. Voice-analysis technology is helping Harrow Council to fight housing benefit fraud.
[September 6, 2007, 16:17]
Socitm: Council websites getting better
News The number of local government websites offering transactional services — such as online council tax payment — has increased by 36 percent. The number of visitors to council websites increased by more than 10 percent in the past 12 months...
[March 5, 2008, 8:48]
Council's security blunder exposes card details
News The file contained details of payments for council tax, business rates, parking fines and rents for more than a year between February 2006 and April 2007. A security blunder at Newcastle City Council has exposed the credit and debit card details of...
[July 30, 2007, 9:00]
Council spends £7m to end IT contract
News Some of these services are said to "generate revenue to offset costs to council-tax payers". Bedfordshire county council has revealed that the cost of terminating its IT partnership with supplier HBS was over £7m.
[September 15, 2005, 16:50]
Capita takes the blame for tax security lapse
News Capita is still refusing to reveal how many residents were affected by the glitch, which affected Lambeth's online council tax system. The incident took place last week and only came to light after an alert council tax payer in Lambeth warned the...
[August 31, 2005, 13:45]
Hidden costs?
Talkback Saving that much should thus result in a decrease in council tax, not the 5% that they are probably going to see, unless the savings are eaten up by hidden costs of course. I often wonder about how realistic these saving claims are.
[September 4, 2007, 15:59]
Bristol Council says it can save £1m with open source
Talkback Thats great I dont know why more public sectors do this and reduce their costs and perhaps our council tax will go down then :) Its great to see this sort of thing amongst all the compatibility scaremongering that goes on.
[March 30, 2006, 12:33]
Chinese Taxation Authority Turns to Grid Computing to Improve Data Analysis
White Papers The State Administration of Taxation (SAT) is responsible for regulating taxation affairs under the State Council of China. Its vast territory and large population make tax administration in China an extremely complex process.
[July 1, 2008, 1:01]
Government promotes e-payment for council services
News These can be used for electronic payments of services including council tax, waste disposal, leisure services and planning applications. A National Project to offer citizens the option of paying for council services electronically was launched by...
[November 17, 2004, 13:05]
IT revamp saves council £5m
News About half of the £4m reduction has gone to reduce council tax and the other half has gone into improving ICT resources to drive forward the council's efficiency programme on a wider scale. The City of Edinburgh Council has reported savings of £5m...
[September 3, 2007, 13:44]
Surfing council worker loses job
News Surfing the Net at work could get you the sack, as council worker Philip Cooke found last week. Cooke resigned from his position as director of Leisure at Gloucester City Council after a disciplinary process was instigated when he was found...
[September 15, 1999, 11:21]
Internet porn: Guilty till proven innocent
Talkback We are talking of some £500,000,000 whick is coming out of householders' Council tax. You render them unemployable, particularly in the UK, so kiss goodbye all that potential tax income Gordon Brown. Right on.
[December 3, 2004, 2:01]
