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ICO complaint seeks answers from prosecutors over deleted Assange emails

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is facing fresh pressure to explain why it deleted key emails exchanged with Swedish prosecutors over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.A lawyer representing an Italian investigative journalist has complained to the Information Commissioner’s Office that the CPS has given inconsistent explanations for deleting the emails with the Swedes in 2014.The complaint…

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Government advised to overturn all Post Office scandal convictions

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The government has been advised to overturn all the convictions of the hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly accused in the Post Office scandal. In a letter to Alex Chalk, the secretary of state for justice, the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board said that revelations from the statutory inquiry into the scandal have shown all the convictions are…

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Police defend facial recognition target selection to Lords

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As UK police look to increase their adoption of live facial recognition, a House of Lords committee has heard that serious issues remain around the proportionality and necessity of the way forces are using the technology. On 12 December 2023, the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee (JHAC) – which has launched a short follow-up…

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CISA reveals how LockBit hacked Boeing via Citrix Bleed

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), alongside the FBI and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), have revealed in-depth details of how the LockBit ransomware gang was able to exploit the so-called Citrix Bleed vulnerability – tracked as CVE-2023-4966 – to obtain initial access to the systems of aviation giant Boeing’s parts and…

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Controversial Fujitsu contract with Post Office extended again

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The Post Office has extended a controversial agreement with IT supplier Fujitsu that will see it support two datacentres to the end of March 2025, at a total additional cost of £36m. Combined with an announcement earlier this year that a services contact with Fujitsu to support the Post Office’s branch accounting system, Horizon, was…

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Executive interview: TechUK CEO Julian David on 10 years of change in UK IT

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It’s a bit of a journalistic trope, but let’s be honest – we’ve all done it. You conclude a CEO interview by asking, “So, if we’re talking again in 10 years’ time, what achievements do you expect to be looking back on?” Of course, given the tenure of most senior executives these days, the chance…

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Microsoft bans SME partners from selling its services via government’s Cloud Compute 2 framework

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The decision came to light after the government’s procurement arm, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) began notifying suppliers on Friday 17 November 2023 about whether or not they had succeeded in securing a spot on the four Lot framework, which is valued at £1.35bn.Documents passed to Computer Weekly confirm that Microsoft is one of 12…

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UK police plan national roll-out of facial-recognition phone app

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UK police chiefs have announced plans to equip officers with a mobile-based facial-recognition tool that will enable them to cross reference photos of suspects against a database of millions of custody images from their phones. Known as operator initiated facial recognition (OIFR), the tool uses software supplier NEC’s NeoFace facial-recognition algorithm, and is currently being…

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Former Post Office manager has no memory of preparing witness statement in legal dispute

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A former Post Office manager claimed she has no memory of preparing a witness statement as part of a legal battle against a subpostmaster who said she had suffered unexplained losses caused by computer errors. Elaine Cottam, who was a retail line manager at the Post Office, told the public inquiry into the Post Office…

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