Sophie Curtis writes in eWeek Europe: Cuts in ICT spending have helped the coalition government make £1 billion worth of efficiency savings since May 2010, the Cabinet Office has revealed. Half of the £1 billion was made through a moratorium on consulting, ICT, recruitment, marketing and property spending, with more than £400 million coming from [...]
Kenneth Roy writes in the Scottish Review about the Scottish Citizen’s Database: In practice, the bizarre logic of economic recovery quickly falls apart. In the most notorious case of child abuse in the UK for many years, it was found that one of the causes of Baby P’s death was the obligation placed on staff [...]
Kenneth Roy writes in the Scottish Review: We no longer need to imagine a futuristic world in which everyone has a number known only to the authorities; a world in which the most intimate details of our lives are able to be shared without our permission or even knowledge; a world in which we are [...]
Bruno Waterfield writes in the Daily Telegraph: The European Commission has demanded Britain justifies the widespread and routine fingerprinting of children in schools because of “significant concerns” that the policy breaks EU privacy laws. The commissioner is also concerned that parents are not allowed legal redress after one man was told he could not challenge [...]
Andrea Petrou writes in Tech Eye: Although many rejoiced when the Coalition government scrapped the controversial ID scam earlier this year, there have been some casualties. According to Home Office Minister of state Damian Green, there’s now £6.5 million worth of pre-purchased IT hardware sitting in boxes which will probably never see the light of [...]
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