150,000 lost UK police records looking more like 400,000 as Home Office continues to blame 'human error'
That technical issue the department said it had fixed? It didn't exist
18 Jan 2021
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Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database
This has got to be the Who Me? story of all time...
15 Jan 2021
UK Home Office chucks US firm Leidos £30m for help snooping on comms data
Er, we mean fighting terrorism and organised crime!
17 Dec 2020
Delay upgrading the UK's legacy border systems has added £336m to taxpayers' bill
Spending watchdog report retells sad history of Home Office IT failings
09 Dec 2020
UK Court of Appeal rebukes Home Office for exceeding its powers with bunkum 'national security' GSM gateway ban
Updated Legal saga that began with dodgy prosecution ends in vindication
20 Nov 2020
UK Home Office seeks suppliers: £25m up for grabs to build database to keep track of crimelords' ill-gotten gains
Seized assets system is 15 years old, counts cash of fraud dept, tax bods, courts, cops and more
07 Sep 2020
Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications
Here's hoping the winner does a better job than Sopra Steria
01 Jun 2020
UK Home Office opens AWS cash firehose even wider with £100m public cloud services deal
Updated Every little helps, right Jeff?
10 Jan 2020
Infosec boffins pour cold water on claims Home Office Brexit app can be easily hacked
'Unnecessary scaremongering' but still some work to be done
14 Nov 2019
UK Home Office: We will register thousands of deactivated firearms with no database
All that is needed is an email inbox, say civil servants
08 Nov 2019
Concerns raised over privacy and security of UK Home Office's £842m biometrics programme
Updated Plans to aggregate it with other databases should be discussed, says ethics group
05 Nov 2019
Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told
Also reliant on HMRC's shaky Customs Declaration Service
08 Oct 2019
Can you code a way to foil online terrorist vids? The Home Office might just have £600K for you
UK.gov wants 'algorithm' to be shared with other tech firms
24 Sep 2019
Chinese students in UK ripe target for scammers exploiting visa concerns
Add in Brexit outsourcing mess and it's plain to see why young international scholars get duped
19 Sep 2019
UK Home Office web form snafu allows you to both agree and disagree – strongly – all at once
Government cares what you think. Honest
17 Sep 2019
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
04 Sep 2019
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
28 Aug 2019
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
31 Jul 2019
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