MoD Hard Disk With Details Of 100,000 Army Personnel Goes Missing

An external hard disk drive containing the details of 100,000 Ministry of Defence Staff has disappeared from a secure location from Hook, Hampshire in the latest and potentially most devastating data lost to date

FRI 10 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Home Office Shows First ID Card Models Amidst Growing Privacy Concerns

The Home Office has unveiled its first ID card model, weeks before the ID card scheme is due to be rolled out nationwide and made compulsory for foreign immigrants coming to Britain

THU 25 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Home Office Cans GBP 1.5m PA Consulting Contract After Memory Stick Loss

Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, has sent a strong signal to all technology firms working with the UK government after sacking PA Consulting following the memory stick containing data of up to 130,000 criminals

THU 11 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Contactpoint Child Database Faces Unexpected Security-related Delays

UK government’s ambitious GBP224 million scheme for keeping records of every child under 18, ContactPoint, is facing all sorts of snags in its final application

FRI 29 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

UK Government To Use £224 million Child Protection Database To Fight Crime

There's a growing evidence that the current Government is seeking to implement a gigantic Cradle-to-grave database which will ultimatedly contain the details of everyone living in Britain

WED 27 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Passenger fingerprints to be Logged and Tracked at British airports

British passengers are in for stricter security checks as British airports contemplate finger print checks after the UK Border Agency declared its intentions on making finger print checks a mandatory security procedure from next year

THU 31 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

EDS, CSC, IBM, Fujitsu, and Thales Chosen for Supplying UK ID Cards

IPS has signed framework contracts with EDS, CSC, IBM, Fujitsu, and Thales for the £2 billion project under the National Identity Scheme

TUE 27 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Myspace opens up users profile through data sharing scheme

Data sharing seems to be all rage with Open ID, Open Social and now the Myspace Data Availability Project making the headlines, shedding more light on how our personal data is being moved around

FRI 09 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

UK ID Card scheme records yet another rise says report

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has promised that the price of ID Cards will be kept under £30 but it looks almost certain that the final bill is set to increase according to a bi-annual report published on Tuesday

THU 08 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Oklahoma State leaks tens of thousands of social security numbers

Residents of Oklahoma State have reportedly been hit this week with the bad news that tens of thousands of their names, social security numbers and allied data were effectively available on the Web for around three years

FRI 18 APRIL 2008 |Featured in: News