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UK Home Office hands Sopra Steria £91m digital visa contract

French outsourcer to handle applications process

Legal18 May 2018 | 22

Cutting custody snaps too costly for cash-strapped cops – UK.gov

Home Office admits national and local databases don't talk to each other, so everything is manual

Databases19 Apr 2018 | 46

British government to ink deal for yet another immigration database

Exclusive Only £347m wasted in last overhaul

Software12 Apr 2018 | 55

Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte creating app to register 3m EU nationals living in Brexit Britain

Great, now we just need to agree the policy

Software09 Apr 2018 | 111

Details of 600,000 foreign visitors to UK go up in smoke thanks to shonky border database

Er, the Home Office might want to get that fixed before Brexit

Legal29 Mar 2018 | 128

Yes, Emergency Service Network will be late and cost more - UK perm sec

It's agile, innit?

Networks28 Mar 2018 | 43

Despite the headlines, Rudd's online terror takedown tool is only part of the solution

Analysis UK.gov schtum on false positives, appeals process and long-term impact

Legal14 Feb 2018 | 41

UK Home Sec Amber Rudd unveils extremism blocking tool

Brought to you by those who 'understand necessary hashtags'

Security13 Feb 2018 | 218

UK Home Office grilled over biometrics, being clingy with folks' mugshots

Minister promises strategy in June – just six years late, then

Legal06 Feb 2018 | 40

Govt 'comprehensively ignored' advice over NHS data-sharing deal

Health committee calls for immediate ban on use of 'unacceptable' agreement

Legal31 Jan 2018 | 38

UK.gov mass data slurping ruled illegal – AGAIN

Another blow for Snooper's Charter

Legal30 Jan 2018 | 40

Home Office admits it sent asylum seeker’s personal info to the state he was fleeing

UK.gov pays £15,500 in damages after failed fact-check

Legal18 Jan 2018 | 54

Why did top Home Office civil servant lobby Ofcom for obscure kit ban?

Comment GSM gateway prohibition was way below Sir Philip Rutnam's paygrade

Legal15 Jan 2018 | 61

What's taking so long? UK.gov pressed over continued delays to biometrics strategy

While you're at it, let's have some specifics on what you tell police about facial recog tech

Legal20 Dec 2017 | 12

Activists launch legal challenge against NHS patient data-sharing deal

Handing over immigrants' info 'violates confidentiality'

Legal09 Nov 2017 | 45

UK Home Office re-bans cheap call gateways because 'terrorism'

Ofcom would have done this itself but didn't have the power

Legal26 Sep 2017 | 55

UK Home Office finds £20m to throw at Oracle cloudy ERP

30,000 users, 2-year contract. What could go wrong? Nail-biting time

SaaS11 Sep 2017 | 11

UK govt steams ahead with £5m facial recog system amid furore over innocents' mugshots

Contract ignores lack of strategy, growing criticism

Security17 Aug 2017 | 46

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3, 4G: Tube comms trials for emergency crews

But bosses can't promise it will be fully complete on time

Networks19 Jul 2017 | 12

One-quarter of UK.gov IT projects at high risk of failure

Digital borders, digital tax and raft of MoJ projects singled out

Legal18 Jul 2017 | 43

UK ministers to push anti-encryption laws after election

Anger over Manchester attack may play a part

Legal25 May 2017 | 353

Just how screwed is IT at the Home Office?

Ageing systems, Brexit, exodus of contractors, delayed agile projects...

Legal28 Apr 2017 | 55

UK.gov throws hissy fit after Twitter chokes off snoop firm's access

You're helping terrorists, shrieks Amber 'Hashtags' Rudd

Legal26 Apr 2017 | 84

UK Home Office warns tech staff not to tweet negative Donald Trump posts

Exclusive 'We need to be careful here'

Legal13 Mar 2017 | 106

UK Home Office spy powers unit pretended it was a private citizen in Ofcom consultation

Exclusive Civil servants belatedly nixed PDF metadata

Legal06 Mar 2017 | 45

UK Home Office slurps 1,500 schoolkids' records per month

Wants to create 'hostile environment' for illegal immigrants

Legal16 Dec 2016 | 75

Home Office extends mega 18-year Fujitsu contract

So much for breaking up the SIs then

Legal27 Oct 2016 | 3

Report: UK counter-terrorism plan Prevent is 'unjust', 'counterproductive'

Muslim child's Facebook holiday snap farce a case in point

Legal19 Oct 2016 | 42

£8 BILLION is locked into UK.gov's failing IT schemes, El Reg analysis reveals

Shared services centres and 'tower' contracts on the ropes

Channel07 Jul 2016 | 20

Extension to blue light services' Airwave network is on the cards

Folk in know confirm there's a Plan B if new net gets delayed

Legal01 Jul 2016 | 8

Home Office staff: Over 100 of our work mobiles lost or pinched last year

Where did you say you'd run those mega-database apps again?

Legal03 Jun 2016 | 12

Home Office declares: Detained immigrants shall have internet

Still no WhatsApp or Facebook, though...

Legal17 May 2016 | 11

Non-police orgs merrily accessed PNC without authority, says HMIC

Campaigners bemoan 'shadowy way' Police National Computer is run

Legal12 May 2016 | 51

UK Home Office seeks secret settlements over unlawful DNA retention

Exclusive Delete all the docs you want, Theresa, the internet never forgets…

Legal05 Apr 2016 | 40

Home Office is cruising for a lawsuit over police use of face recog tech

Q: When can you ignore a High Court ruling? A: When you're a police employee

Legal11 Mar 2016 | 36

E-borders will be eight years late and cost more than £1bn

'Essential...but the Home Office is blasé about delivery'

Legal04 Mar 2016 | 39

Airwave drops lawsuit against Home Office over EE contract win

Motorola buys firm, tells it to put down the lawyers

Channel24 Feb 2016 | 10

Home Office lost its workers' completed security vetting forms

Terrible Theresa's department caught making worst security blunder of all

Security29 Jan 2016 | 44

'Blue light services will get 4G on London Tube!' Cool, how? 'Errrrm...'

Emergency Services Network deal mired in confusion as Airwave flings sueball

Networks29 Jan 2016 | 24

UK Home Sec wants Minority Report-style policing – using your slurped data

Be a shame to waste the 'vast quantities' of lovely citizen data!

Channel27 Jan 2016 | 84

Indie review blasts detained immigrants' Facebook, Skype ban

Social networking ban should be struck down, says one-time ombudsman

Legal14 Jan 2016 | 9

MPs question value of canning Raytheon from e-borders

'Some 80 per cent of £1.1bn project has been written off'

Legal17 Dec 2015 | 17

NAO slams £830m e-Borders IT project as ‘not value for money’

Even so, some ‘valuable capabilities have been added to our defences’

Channel03 Dec 2015 | 14

Terror, terror everywhere: Call the filter police, there's a madman (or two) in town

Analysis UK.gov gets radical on radicalisation. Again

Legal20 Oct 2015 | 87

Home Office seeks advice on Police Radio omnishambles

Disastrous procurement promises less than services currently have

Networks17 Aug 2015 | 31

Reg reader? Work at the Home Office? Are you SURE?

It's ‘playing its part in reducing the budget deficit’, apparently

On-Prem20 Jul 2015 | 26

Home Office kept schtum on more than 30 data breaches last year

More non-reported incidents; fewer actual reported incidents. Trebles all round!

Legal07 Jul 2015 | 17

Law changed to allow GCHQ hacking ... just as GCHQ hauled into court for hacking

Updated It doesn't say what you think it says, sniggers gov

Legal15 May 2015 | 56

Police ICT company finally lurches off the ground

Fill your boots guys as it could be scrapped after the election

Channel30 Mar 2015 | 12

Home Office splashed £35m trying to escape e-Borders contract

Exclusive Costs set to balloon further as Raytheon 'determined to pursue' appeal

On-Prem19 Mar 2015 | 29

Shy, retiring British spies come out as MEGA HACKERS

UK gov seeks YOUR views on oxymoronic 'equipment interference code'

Legal08 Feb 2015 | 15

Government locked into £330m Oracle contract until 2016

Not one, not two but three mega-tech firms are getting paid....

Channel08 Dec 2014 | 30

Home Office: It's an EMERGENCY! We need proper comms

Sets out contractor for modernised network

Channel21 Nov 2014 |

Curious to know if the UK's Tory-led government is a mega spy? Answer: Yes

RIPA requests for comms data balloon under Coalition

Legal01 Nov 2014 | 39

Computer misuse: Brits could face LIFE IN PRISON for serious hacking offences

Vague wording leads to legal uncertainty, says JCHR

Legal22 Oct 2014 | 108

Thieves steal more iPhones than any other handset, warns UK government

Apple mobes are top of the cops' index

Channel07 Sep 2014 | 24