Home Office

Home Office terminates order for 16,000 PCs from Dell

Civil servant admin cockup delays contract rollout

Channel03 Apr 2014 | 20

Home Office clumsily LEAKS data of 1,598 immigrants, blames 'transparency'

Nodding watchdog: We're looking closely at this one

Security13 Dec 2013 | 10

GOV.UK's criminal record check IT job blow: Home Office snubs new design

Tough times for web bods as they also cough to 4-month rollout delays

Legal11 Dec 2013 | 30

UK.gov's web filtering mission creep: Now it plans to block 'extremist' websites

Of course, it doesn't define what 'extremist' means here

Legal29 Nov 2013 | 162

Watchdog drags Home Office to naughty step for dragging feet on FOIs

Theresa May's tardy dept told: 'Big Brother's Big Brother is watching you'

Legal09 Aug 2013 | 9

Home Office opens up anonymised crime data API

Please play with our less sensitive bits, UK gov tells mobe devs

Software03 Jul 2013 | 9

Home Office launches £4m cyber security awareness scheme

Be afraid. Be judiciously afraid

On-Prem24 Jun 2013 | 36

Home Office boffins slip out passport-scanning Android app

'Very good, Jones, but what's the point of our latest gizmo?'

Software20 Jun 2013 | 35

CRINGE! Home Office wants to know whether your boss BEATS YOU

Skeeved-out staffers: No, I said we flog BOXES...

Channel14 Jun 2013 | 31

Queen's Speech: 'Problem of matching IP addresses' to be probed

Theresa May's proposed Snooper's Charter absent from law-making programme

Legal08 May 2013 | 79

Rubbish IT means DEATH for UK Border Agency, announces May

Only a bullet can end the monster's blundering misery

Legal27 Mar 2013 | 52

Britain's passport and ID service seeks facial recog tech suppliers

Contract worth up to £16m over five years

Legal18 Mar 2013 | 17

UK web snoop charter: Just how much extra info do spooks need?

Analysis Influential parliamentarians sniffs around packet-sniffing draft law

Legal06 Feb 2013 | 72

Parliament to unleash barrage of criticism on Snoopers' Charter

Unseen spook Farr back again with plan to tap the UK net

Legal10 Dec 2012 | 59

Theresa May DDoS case: Man cuffed by eCops

Home Office topple coppers take trip to Stoke

Security07 Nov 2012 | 13

Why will UK web supersnoop plan cost £1.8bn? That's a secret

Anyway this is gov IT, we've got no idea what it'll cost

Legal10 Oct 2012 | 58

Wales: We'll encrypt Wikipedia if reborn gov net-snoop plan goes live

But what is the plan? Sorry, that's a secret

Legal06 Sep 2012 | 75

New crime-busting Sherlock Holmes app sought for Brit cops

You know my methods price, Watson: £60m

Legal06 Sep 2012 | 8

Number-plate spycams riddled with flaws, top cop admits

Crims know location of some ANPR cameras, helps them evade capture on the road

Legal29 Aug 2012 | 167

Councils launch eight spying ops on Brits A DAY using RIPA

Law designed for spooks, used against smokers

Legal22 Aug 2012 | 51

New police-run IT biz to take top cops out of the server room

Who will run tech guru outfit an unsolved mystery

Channel18 Jul 2012 | 5

Plans for special police-run ICT firm to firm up this month

Plods to use pork truncheon to beat savings out of market

Channel02 Jul 2012 | 7

Wraps come off UK super-snooper draft plans

Attempt to log everyone who cares foiled by duff website

Networks14 Jun 2012 | 90

Home Office spunks another £12.8m on face recog tech

Before £8m spent on IRIS has a chance to hit bottom of bin

Legal14 Jun 2012 | 10

Most of Home Office's savings scored from haggling over ICT deals

But £24.2m just a drop in £1.8bn target

Legal31 May 2012 | 1

MPs brand BlackBerrys for bobbies scheme a failure

Millions of pounds spent while only thousands saved

Legal30 May 2012 | 26

Queen unveils draft internet super-snoop bill - with clauses

Her Maj opens Parliamentary session with clear nod to CCDP

Legal09 May 2012 | 109

UK Border Agency servers go titsup, thousands grounded

Good thing there's no Olympics coming up

Legal04 May 2012 | 41

ICO mulls stiffer probe into Google Street View Wi-Fi slurp

Fresh revelations may pave way for some actual punishment

Legal02 May 2012 | 32

Theresa May: No emails sniffed in web super-snoop law

'No real-time monitoring' Home Sec retorts

Legal24 Apr 2012 | 56

Home Office 'technologically clueless' on web super-snoop law

Scrambling for Safety 2012 Ex-top cop, net experts trash real-time UK packet sniff

Legal20 Apr 2012 | 54

Home Sec: Web snoop law will snare PAEDOS, TERRORISTS

May asks Blighty to 'think of the children'

Legal03 Apr 2012 | 180

Stop snubbing top scientists' advice, Lords tell MPs

Dossier of gov's dodgy decisions reveals sidelined advisers

Legal29 Feb 2012 | 71

New Blighty crime map will track crooks' punishment

UK.gov also talks up new national cybercrime fighting force

Legal31 Jan 2012 | 13

Criminal Records Bureau checks to go online

Status check removes need for fresh papers for each job application

Legal08 Dec 2011 | 14

Immigrants face £49k wage minimum to stay

Poorly paid super boffins welcome though

On-Prem09 Nov 2011 | 59

Foreign Office loses dozens of PCs and smartphones

It's not like Bond to fumble his equipment

Legal09 Nov 2011 | 16

UK Home Sec: 'I authorised biometric bypass pilot'

MPs told passport checks 'abandoned on occasion'

Legal07 Nov 2011 | 13

MPs label police IT 'not fit for purpose'

Bleedin' 'ell, guv, the computer's fell down the stairs

Legal26 Sep 2011 | 28

UK.gov works on YET ANOTHER open-source push

TransferSummit Home Office battles internal 'communism' beliefs

Legal08 Sep 2011 | 24

Gov outlines Criminal Records Bureau successor

Here comes the Protecting Your Freedom Bureau. Outsourced

Legal26 Aug 2011 | 15

Keep calm and carry on networking, says UK.gov

Tweeting while London burns is OK

Networks25 Aug 2011 | 17

Home Office faces £500m demand in e-Borders sacking

US defence contractor still wants paying

Legal25 Aug 2011 | 13

Social networks likely to snub Home Office in riot confab

Twitter may be irritating, but it doesn't cause looting

Networks25 Aug 2011 | 21

ID and Passport Service uncloaks 2012 online plans

Apply for a Brit passport from anywhere in the world

Legal19 Aug 2011 | 24

Home Office farms out tech deal worth £40m

4-year contract for border cops' Employers' Checking Service

Legal08 Aug 2011 | 2

Police procurement deal means cops pay more

Handcuffing cops to one supplier means higher prices

Channel05 Aug 2011 | 15

Home Office denies reports of e-Borders closure

Not chucked out in public cuts

Legal04 Aug 2011 | 3

Online map suppressing crime reporting, says survey

Don't tell the plods, we'll never sell the house!

Legal15 Jul 2011 | 49

Home Office to review future of Sprint ii framework

Gov will reassess deal after launch of police ICT firm

Channel07 Jul 2011 | 2

Side-lined suppliers beat on Police procurement deal

Sprint ii: To buy or not to buy

Channel27 Jun 2011 | 10

Tory terror changes promise moon on stick

Doctors to predict future-bombers, blacklist for UK internet

Legal07 Jun 2011 | 46

Identity and Passport Service loses its website

Tentacle reabsorbed by Home Office

Legal19 May 2011 | 5

RIPA to be changed to demand full consent to monitoring

UK drafts new amendments after accusations from EU of poor Phorm

Legal20 Apr 2011 | 28

UK.gov closes door against foreign boners

Still short of doctors, nurses and scientists

Legal03 Mar 2011 | 14

ICO evidence raises Freedoms Bill data worries

Where are the weak spots?

Legal03 Mar 2011 | 9