Tom Espiner writes for ZDNet UK: The UK government has announced funds to ‘lubricate’ its trusted identity scheme, in which citizens authenticate themselves across multiple public services. The ‘Identity Assurance’ single sign-on scheme will get £10m over two years from the government’s £650m cybersecurity budget, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude told a conference in central [...]
Dick Vinegar writes on the Guardian web site: Who would have thought it, the Department of Health is encouraging NHS organisations “to accelerate creation of summary care records (SCRs), with the aim of having them in place for most patients by 2013-14″. And 9m records have already been uploaded. This is a miracle. At the [...]
Rebecca Todd writes in eHealthcare Insider: NHS staff breached data protection policies on average five times a week over the past three years with some posting patient information on Facebook. Freedom of Information Act requests by privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch reveal at least 806 separate incidents at 152 NHS Trusts where patient medical [...]
Aayush Arya writes at The Next Web: Steve (or someone close to him) spotted a loophole in the California vehicle laws. Anyone with a brand new car had a maximum of six months to affix the issued number plate to the vehicle. So Jobs made an arrangement with the leasing company; he would always change [...]
Neal Ungerleider writes in Fast Company: Biometrics are the next big thing in government and homeland security. But the recent theft of the personal information of 9 million Israelis living and dead–including the birth parents of adoptees and sensitive health information–could have big ramifications for foreign governments. Every time a foreigner comes to the United [...]
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