Public Servant magazine reports shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper’s speech to the Labour Party conference, in which she said: Conference, the police need strong powers to cut crime – alongside strong checks and balances to guard against abuse. But behind the rhetoric the Tories are making it harder for the police to do their job. [...]
Dick Vinegar writes in his “Pateient from Hell” blog at the Guardian: I sometimes feel I am on my own in arguing that the Summary Care Record, handled properly, would increase my own safety and that of most other patients. I see myself as a gallant little fighter against the serried ranks of clinical SCR-naysayers, [...]
Andrew Hough writes in the Daily Telegraph: A multi-billion pound IT project started by Labour to link all parts of the NHS is to be abandoned, it will be announced on Thursday. Ministers will say the ill-fated £11.4 billion National Programme for IT, set up by Labour in 2002, is to be “urgently dismantled” following [...]
Wendy Grossman writes in her net.wars blog about the long-term impact of the West’s response to the events of 11th September 2011: The UK in particular has spent much of the last ten years building the database state, creating dozens of large databases aimed at tracking various portions of society through various parts of their [...]
Kathleen Hall writes in Computer Weekly: The success of the government’s “digital by default” agenda, a central drive in its ICT strategy, will depend to a large extent on how comfortable the public feels in transmitting personal data online. Identity assurance (IDA) will play a central role for the government in delivering digital public services [...]
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