Greater Manchester All Set To Roll Out New Biometric Cards

Google is among 26 companies to have signed up to 'Midata', a UK government initiative that critics see as an attempt to kickstart a UK business sector peddling personal data at best - and at worst, an attempt to sneak in an...

Major contractors are still in the dark over the future of a number of public sector IT projects in the run-up to the new coalition government's spending review. The coalition's joint policy document, released last Thursday,...

A confidential Microsoft document, the Global Criminal Compliance Handbook, was leaked all over the internet by Cryptome.org, an organisation that focuses on publishing secret government documents. The 22 page 'spy guide'...

An ex-government informant has been charged with the largest identity theft scam in the US history, in which he stole details of as many as 130 million credit cards and debit cards accounts from big retail companies.Albert...

A proposed project to employ a new IT system to manage criminals across prisons and probation services was dubbed as “masterclass in sloppy project management”, after a report observed hiked budgets and delays. The...

The Information Commissioner's Office has severely criticised the Home Office and one of its contractor, PA consulting, for losing an unencrypted memory stick which contained the personal details of tens of thousands of...

A survey conducted by Get Safe Online and backed by Microsoft, SOCA and the Government, showed that the average identity is worth roughly £14,500 to online criminals but can be purchased for as little as £80. The...

A Black-hat hacker, known as Anonymous Coward, based in Chile has compiled and released details of more than six million of fellow Chileans on the internet, a decision that was apparently motivated by his angst against the way...

The freedom of information case must now be re-assessed by a new Tribunal, the Court said. The massive project is subject to periodic independent reviews of progress, called Gateway Reviews, by the Office of Government Commerce...

Should it be confirmed that the discs have effectively been stolen rather than lost, it would highlight the fact that it is much less of a gamble for criminals to steal such bounty rather than risk their lives in a real bank...

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) will go to the High Court in an attempt to overturn an Information Tribunal ruling on access to controversial Government reports.An anti-ID card activist and a Liberal Democrat MP asked for...

Computer engineers should be taught to design systems with privacy protection built in, according a report by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE). The report also says that people who misuse data should face jail terms.The...

The Information Commissioner says that the identity card scheme planned by the Home Office could breach data protection legislation unless it is carefully controlled. Commissioner Richard Thomas makes the warning in his Office's...