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UK Home Office web form snafu allows you to both agree and disagree – strongly – all at once

Government cares what you think. Honest

Security17 Sep 2019 | 53

Red flag: Home Office inks £45m border tech extension with IBM

After 15 years, Semaphore DB that flags up persons of interest goes into extra (Brexit) time

Security04 Sep 2019 | 16

Home Office told to stop telling EU visa porkies

Government dept finally called out... by Britain's ad watchdog. We guess everyone else was busy

Legal28 Aug 2019 | 97

New UK Home Sec invokes infosec nerd rage by calling for an end to end-to-end encryption

Yep, Patel continues age-old tradition. Plus: Five Eyes word games

Security31 Jul 2019 | 232

Freshly outsourced Home Office project: Overseas student visa IT slammed for delays

And the rush hasn’t started yet

On-Prem29 Jul 2019 | 18

Hello Moto! UK Home Office shoves comms giant another £82m to stay on Emergency Services Network gig

More delays ahead for troubled programme

Networks21 Jun 2019 | 16

Yeah, you're not having a GSM gateway, Ofcom tells hopeful operators

UK.gov hasn't appealed High Court ruling yet – but regulator upholds ban anyway

Networks28 May 2019 | 24

UK Home Office: If we want Ofcom to break the law, that should be perfectly legal

Department to appeal High Court ruling over ministerial powers

Networks13 May 2019 | 20

Home Office cops an earful for emergency network feck-ups - £3bn overbudget and 3 years late

Red warning light for blue-light comms

Networks10 May 2019 | 52

Cop watchers to probe UK police sharing data on witnesses' migration status with Home Office

Handing over info on migration status deters crime reports, say rights groups

Legal29 Mar 2019 | 12

UK.gov flushed away £15k defending pupil nationality data slurp – then canned scheme

Department for Education slammed over wasting cash

Legal26 Mar 2019 | 15

So Windrush happened, and yet UK Home Office immigration data still has 'appalling defects'

Could errors affect other applications? Dunno. When will new systems be online? Dunno

Legal06 Mar 2019 | 36

UK Home Office dumps huge sack of complex data sets on biometrics ethics board's desk, goes for beer (probably)

Roses are red, gave Violet pick 'n' mix. She didn't like the milk bottles. Now back to ethics

Legal14 Feb 2019 | 5

Cheap call? Hardly. GSM gateway judicial review to settle whether UK Home Sec can legally push comms watchdog around

Grey area in comms law needs a tad more black and white

Networks05 Feb 2019 | 37

Campaigners get go-ahead to challenge exemption UK gave itself over immigrants' data

Sueball lobbed at Brit government over Data Protection Act

Legal17 Jan 2019 | 11

The British Home Office was warned about its crappy data management – then Windrush happened

Watchdog's report damning amid calls for 'firewall' for immigration data sharing

Legal05 Dec 2018 | 25

Skimming cash off UK police budget for tech projects probably not the best idea, say MPs

Particularly when those projects overrun and overspend

Legal09 Nov 2018 | 6

Concerns over cops' crap computer kit: UK MPs call for cash, capacity, command

Report slams digital policing and Home Office's leadership

Legal31 Oct 2018 | 22

Civil rights group Liberty walks out on British cops' database consultation

Slams Home Office's lack of engagement with privacy fears

Databases02 Oct 2018 | 63

Home Office opens AWS cash firehose a little wider with police IT deal

Contract notice reveals yet another UK.gov systems migration to Bezos cloud

SaaS17 Aug 2018 | 12

Home Office seeks Brexit tech boss – but doesn't splash the cash

£100k to sort borders, immigration, biometrics systems by 2019. Did we mention it's in Croydon?

Legal17 Aug 2018 | 136

UK.gov's long-awaited, lightweight biometrics strategy fails to impress

Analysis Officials gather up previous canned statements, adds contents page... er...

Security29 Jun 2018 | 16

UK Home Office sheds 70 staff on delayed 4G upgrade to Emergency Services Network

Perm Sec declines to confirm if review will be published as planned next month

Networks28 Jun 2018 | 40

Asylum seeker spreadsheet data blurt: UK Home Office loses appeal to limit claimants

Family members can seek damages

Legal18 Jun 2018 | 5

UK Home Office's £885m crim records digi effort: A 'masterclass in incompetence'

Watchdog not happy with Emergency Services Network, either

Software25 May 2018 | 49

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