Public Sector
MoD wants to maintain a register of AI experts
Before robots can take over from humans, we need more humans
St Helens NHS CCG warned that cyber-attack is 'high risk'
Successful attack could result in harm to patients and financial loss, warns NHS governing body
Government reveals plans to fund research into off-road self-driving vehicles
Research intended to seed development of autonomous vehicles for use in industry
US to plough $80 billion into digital transformation in latest budget plan
US government budget indicates plans for more joined-up technology in government
High Court rules Snoopers' Charter surveillance regime unlawful
Successive governments have tried to push through the Snoopers' Charter for a decade
NHS Digital approves public cloud use for storing patient data
The NHS will be able to use the offshore public cloud to store personal data, but critics have raised security concerns
Estonian authorities block national ID cards due to ROCA security flaw
Estonia has recalled national ID cards after smartcard security flaw was uncovered
NHS and Department of Health didn't know how to respond to WannaCry, claims NAO
No provision had been made for communications - so staff used WhatsApp instead
NHS trusts failure to patch Windows 7 left them vulnerable to WannaCry, concludes NAO investigation
NHS trusts "could have taken relatively simple action to protect themselves", claims NAO
The state of digital transformation in the NHS
The health service must do more with less, and that is driving digital transformation
Aylesbury Vale District Council uses AI to lower response times and costs
"AI will be crucial in the public sector," says digital strategy manager Maryvonne Hassal
One-tenth of world's pagers used by the NHS
NHS single-handedly keeping the pager industry going in the UK
UK government committed to working with UK SMBs
Public sector has spent £1.2 million with SMBs on digital services since 2012
Head of the GDS should have place on Civil Service Board, urges Institute of Government
Idea would give GDS head Kevin Cunnington full membership of board
Home Office, HMRC and DWP will share records for digital Brexit immigration system
Proposed new immigration system would be 'as digital, flexible and frictionless for individuals and employers as possible'
Most local authorities - including all in London - can't meet GDPR 'right to be forgotten' rules
Seventy per cent of local authorities flunk key GDPR requirement
British police need training in IT skills to handle surge in online crimes, claims Reform thinktank
Half of crimes involve 'digital technology' that police lack the skills to deal with, warns Reform
Hacker claims to have stolen data on 1.2 million NHS patients
But breached contractor says that it simply didn't have that much data
Email accounts of MSPs targeted in cyber attack on Scottish Parliament
Cyber attack on Scottish Parliament comes after MPs at Westminster were targeted in June by a similar brute force attack
Yet another NHS data breach - this time at St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust
Trainee doctors' personal details spilled via carelessly published spreadsheet
European Commmissioner Andrus Ansip proposes new European cyber security centre to certify security of technology products
But does the EU need yet another organisation to tackle IT security?
Civica sold again - this time to Swiss investment fund Partners Group in £1bn deal
Sanderson spin-out in fourth sale since 2004 as Partners Group scoops it up just a week after Civica bought SMB focused Carval
UK government plan to train 6,000 students in £20m cyber security programme
Four-year programme will include hundreds of hours of extra-curricular content, DCMS claims
NHS trusts bin 144 computers every day
Trusts have purchased more than 400,000 new PCs since 2013, at a cost of £260 million