News

• ICO rebukes Northern Ireland DFP

  Northern Ireland's Department of Finance and Personnel has been penalised by the Information Commissioner's Office for a major loss of people's personal data

• Police will retain data on 1m innocents

  Those who have been arrested but not convicted of a crime will stay on the police national computer, despite their DNA profiles being deleted

• Directgov launches travel iPhone app

  The government's central information portal has launch iPhone software with road and public transport updates for the whole of the UK

• e-Borders is illegal, says select committee

  MPs have demanded that the UK Border Agency must urgently check the legality of its border database programme for European travel

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• Scotland plans public notice portal

• Cities get £20m for integrated ticketing

• Government appoints interim CCTV regulator

• IPC powers up

• £500m telecoms deal up for grabs

• ID cards extended to north-west

• Comment

• England: big enough to fail

  Provincial England's health service suffers from its size when trying to develop informatics, says SA Mathieson

• A failure to learn

  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the C-Nomis project suggests that parts of the public sector have been very slow to learn the lessons of earlier failures, writes Mark Say

• Living with risk

  Dominic Grieve has introduced a touch more honesty into the debate about privacy and personal information, argues Mark Say

• HMG isn't Tesco

  Damian Green believes that policing IT projects have made everyone a suspect. He has a point, argues SA Mathieson