Brown alerted to HMRC data risk in 2004
News Gordon Brown was told three years ago that weak data-protection procedures governing the child-benefit database made fraud or mistakes more likely and potentially undetectable, according to The Register.
[December 10, 2007, 14:36]
Government puts data sharing in the spotlight
News The consultation forms part of an independent review into the use and sharing of personal information announced by prime minister Gordon Brown in October. It will be led by information commissioner Richard Thomas and Dr Mark Walport, the director...
[December 12, 2007, 16:27]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog What Oftel, the EU and Gordon Brown has failed to do -- unbundle the local loop from BT -- may be achieved by the simple expedient of offering the comatose telco a large wedge of cash. Earthlease, a bank-led consortium, has put 8 billion quid on...
[August 3, 2001, 15:55]
High-tech gambling predicted to boom
News The decision by Gordon Brown earlier this year to replace betting tax with a tax on bookmaker's profits led to suggestions that this country could become in Internet tax haven. The popularity of gambling on the Internet and through digital TVs in...
[June 14, 2001, 14:30]
Why are we not surprised?
Talkback The leader of the opposition was making big noises about FOSS as if he even knew what the acronym stands for, but that was at a time when there was speculation that Gordon Brown may have called an election.
[September 28, 2009, 9:32]
Even the BSA attacking Mandy over P2P crackdown
Blog They have finally admitted that, as we suspected, their plans do include cutting off internet access for whole families if one member of that family shares files, in stark contrast to Gordon Brown's recently stated aim of "universal connectivity...
[August 25, 2009, 17:16]
Students refuse to be 'guinea pigs' for ID cards
News Critics of the scheme said the perceived two-year slip in the widespread rollout of the cards is another sign of wavering support among Gordon Brown's government for ID cards. The document says: "Implementation of identity cards will be benefits...
[January 25, 2008, 8:41]
Power to the people
Leader If Gordon Brown finds inspiration in spare processor cycles in the next budget, that would be one unintended consequence that deserves the force of law. Yet by letting people carry more on their jaunts, the wheelie case has led directly to heavier...
[February 17, 2006, 12:15]
ID must 'engage consumers' hearts and minds'
News He noted that the fact that it had taken 18 months to produce a 48-page report — commissioned by Gordon Brown as chancellor &mda sh; suggested the original draft had been somewhat longer. He adds: "Ironically therefore, the system that is genuinely...
[March 10, 2008, 10:39]
On the beat with iPlod
Leader Making his maiden speech as leader to the Labour Party conference this week, Gordon Brown pledged 10,000 handheld devices for police forces across the country so officers can log crimes on the spot: His laptop pinged and its blue LED message light...
[September 27, 2007, 15:21]
PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
Blog Gordon Brown is bringing in the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to help open up government data. So that Government information is accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people, I have asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee who led the...
[June 10, 2009, 14:46]
Cameron urges Brown to rethink ID cards
News David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, called on the prime minister, Gordon Brown, to rethink his plans for the National Identity Register, following the "appalling blunder" which led to the huge loss of child-benefit data from HM...
[November 23, 2007, 13:26]
London council ditches Linux plans
Talkback Gordon Brown invites Billionaire Bill Gates, a convicted monopolist and practiser of unethical and predatory business practises, to a conference on entrepenuership to give himself cred in case Tony jacks his job in (Bit like inviting Vlad the...
[January 22, 2004, 21:38]
Scale of online tax credit fraud revealed
News Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said in his pre-Budget report at the end of 2005 that new anti-fraud measures would include HMRC doubling the checks it carries out on new claims for tax credits before payments are made.
[January 17, 2006, 8:35]
