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Home Office admits loss of 3,000 workers' data
News The Home Office has lost the names, nationalities, passport numbers and dates of birth of 3,000 seasonal agricultural workers on two CDs in transit to the UK Borders Authority. The incident, which took place in March, was reported to the...
[August 12, 2008, 8:04]
Home Office reveals early ID vendors
News The Home Office has listed 3M and nCipher as providers to the early stage of the National Identity Scheme. However, she added that although the Home Office is investigating possible alternatives, "no final method has been decided", and no cost can...
[March 25, 2009, 7:47]
Home Office cuts estimated cost of ID-cards scheme
News Smith also told Huhne that the Home Office spent £41.1m on its ID-cards programme in 2003-05. In a separate parliamentary written answer on Thursday, Home Office minister Meg Hillier said that, although the scheme will involve 10 fingerprints being...
[November 25, 2008, 10:20]
Home Office: We got data retention wrong
News The Home Office made a startling admission on Thursday morning that its plans for making ISPs retain details of customer emails and Web surfing have not worked out as it had hoped, and the UK is now "back to square one".
[December 5, 2002, 16:36]
Home Office admits to database breaches
News The Home Office has admitted that the security of its ID and passport service database has been compromised several times, but denied that remote hackers were responsible. In a response to a parliamentary question at the end of last week, the Home...
[August 31, 2006, 9:40]
Home Office publishes data-sharing guidance
News The Home Office has published a code of practice for data sharing between public- and private-sector organisations. The Home Office said on Thursday that the code was designed to be "overarching", and that encryption was not specified as data could...
[October 9, 2008, 17:18]
Home Office rapped over data-protection breach
News Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has found the Home Office to have breached data-protection law over the loss of 84,000 prisoners' data. Although the data was lost by contractor PA Consulting, as the relevant data controller...
[January 23, 2009, 12:25]
Home Office data loss included drug records
News The Home Office has confirmed that the volume of data on a lost memory stick was much larger than originally reported. The Home Office spokesperson said the lost memory stick has not been recovered. Its resource-accounts for 2008-09 show that 377...
[August 27, 2009, 8:46]
Home Office says 'no' to cybercrime figures
News The Home Office will not be recording cybercrime figures, despite investing £25m in a National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) launched on Wednesday. The failure to quantify how much criminal activity is taking place on the Net has become a bone of...
[April 20, 2001, 15:10]
Home Office steps up mobile fraud measures
News The Home Office has announced the move as part of a series of measures agreed with the mobile phone and banking industries to cut the potential for crime created by new near-field communication (NFC) technology.
[August 28, 2009, 12:44]
Home Office launches virtual strip searches
News Criminals worried about what life behind bars may be like are offered an online prison tour as part of a new service launched by the Home Office. The Home Office is offering a virtual tour of prison life where Web site visitors are shown the inside...
[October 12, 2004, 17:05]
Home Office agency buys biometric security
News The Home Office's Security Industry Authority (SIA) has announced a deal with ISL Biometrics to install biometric technology for network access. Biometric authentication systems have been installed to give remote workers and office staff access to...
[April 16, 2004, 8:35]
Home Office up for Internet Villain hat-trick
News The Home Office has made it onto the short list for Internet Villain at the ISPAs - the most unwanted award in the Internet industry's calendar. If it wins, the Home Office will take away the award for the third year in a row -- not something that...
[December 23, 2003, 10:45]
Home Office looks to high street for ID biometrics
News The Home Office wants to use the tender process to gauge whether businesses such as post offices and banks would be interested in participating in taking fingerprints from people for the scheme, ZDNet UK understands.
[November 5, 2008, 17:11]
Home Office backs seven-year data retention laws
News The Home Office is planning to introduce new surveillance laws that would allow communications traffic data to be stored for up to seven years. According to sources familiar with the issue, the Home Office is supporting the proposed EU...
[September 28, 2001, 15:54]
Home Office admits data retention plans
News The Home Office has admitted that it plans to reserve extra powers to force ISPs to retain data about customers if its current "voluntary code of practice" proves inadequate to deal with terrorists. It also leaves wide open the question of what...
[October 26, 2001, 18:25]
Home Office to review DNA database, RIPA
News The Home Office will conduct a review of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act early next year, home secretary Jacqui Smith announced on Tuesday. Smith said the Home Office was considering "a differentiated approach [to DNA retention...
[December 16, 2008, 17:00]
Home Office 'wrong' over criminalisation of IT pros
News The Home Office has been blasted by lawyers over its claims that changes to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) will not affect legitimate users. Home Office minister Vernon Coaker claimed this week that amendments to the CMA will only criminalise those...
[July 19, 2006, 16:45]
Home Office has received over 1,000 ID card requests
News More than 1,000 messages asking for ID cards have flooded into the Home Office. Smith also said the Home Office planned to introduce a secure "web-based service" to allow people to check how much of their "core identity information" is held on the...
[December 23, 2008, 7:27]
Home Office again!
Talkback Yet again we have a ridiculous plan from the Home Office which would be wide open to fraud and misuse - and, surprise, surprise, (think they'd never learn? data available for loss and theft. Want a new identity?
[November 6, 2008, 14:31]
