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MoD trails £1bn investment in cyber and drones

5 days ago | publictechnology.net | Jim Dunton

The Strategic Defence Review will see more than £1bn invested in cutting-edge battlefield technology that will allow UK forces to disable threats with drones or cyber operations – as well as more traditional methods – the Ministry of Defence has said. Ahead of the publication of the SDR next week, the MoD said the 10-year strategy will see the creation of a “Digital Targeting Web” that will apply lessons learned from the war in Ukraine.
GDS signs £10m One Login cyber deal and plans recertification after losing government digital ID trustmark

6 days ago | publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall

The Government Digital Service has awarded a pair of multimillion contracts to provide cybersecurity and technical architecture services for the GOV.UK One Login programme – as the project to deliver the new sign-in tool begins work to reattain the system’s recently lost formal trust certification, PublicTechnology can reveal.
Data watchdog scolds Manchester Police over ‘serious shortcomings’ in CCTV storage

6 days ago | publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall

The Information Commissioner’s Office has hit Greater Manchester Police with a formal reprimand over “serious shortcomings” in how the force handles CCTV. The official rebuke relates to footage taken during a 48-hour period in February 2021 in which a person was held in custody. The Professional Standards Directorate of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) subsequently asked that the force retain this recording beyond the standard storage period of 90 days.
Almost two-thirds of tasks performed by entry-level officials could be automated, government analysis finds

6 days ago | publictechnology.net | Tevye Markson

The lowest-ranked civil servants spend almost two-thirds of their time on routine tasks that could be automated, according to analysis by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. DSIT has previously estimated that automating routine tasks in the public sector could deliver savings of £36bn.
Minister: ‘Legal Aid Agency data breach enabled by fragility of IT systems’

1 week ago | publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall

As the Legal Aid Agency continues to recover from a data breach that compromised significant amounts of citizens’ personal data, a minister has claimed that the attack was made possible by fragile IT systems resulting from “long years of neglect”. The LAA announced earlier this month that it had discovered a successful hack of its online services on 23 April.
North Yorkshire seeks leader to spearhead ‘largest transformation programme’

1 week ago | publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall

North Yorkshire Council is offering a £100,000-plus salary for a new senior manager to oversee the “largest transformation programme local government” in the area has ever been through. The vacant role as assistant director of transformation comes with a responsibility for directly managing five other leaders, including the heads of: business analysis; service design and digital adoption; data and insight; transformation portfolio management; and projects and programmes.
UK and EU agree AI collab deal

1 week ago | publictechnology.net | Sofia Villegas

The UK’s new deal with the European Union provides for an artificial intelligence collaboration that will link UK innovators to the continent’s top supercomputers. Under the new plans, the UK would work with the EU-based “AI factories” to tackle pressing challenges including climate change and disease. Access to such compute power – the high-performance processing capability needed to handle vast data and complex models – is considered the “the engine of progress in AI”, the UK Government said.
HMRC study: ‘Data sharing is an emotive topic with mixed responses reflecting lack of awareness and understanding of the issues’

1 week ago | publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall

HM Revenue and Customs has revealed the results of government-commissioned research on citizens’ attitude towards data-sharing which identified a “lack of awareness and understanding of the issues”. According to a summary of the research freshly published on GOV.UK, the prospect of personal info being distributed both within and beyond government was found to be “an emotive topic with mixed responses”.
Government AI note-taking trialled by 25 councils

1 week ago | publictechnology.net | Sam Trendall

A government-developed artificial intelligence tool designed to automate note-taking is being trialled by 25 local councils around the country. The Minute software – which forms part of the wider Humprehy suite of AI programs – “uses generative AI to turn meetings into notes and adds unique tools to help tweak and correct summaries more efficiently”, according to the government.
NCSC pins ‘malicious campaign’ of cyberattacks on Russian military intelligence

1 week ago | publictechnology.net | Sofia Villegas

Russian military intelligence has carried out a “malicious campaign” against a raft of key western logistic and tech companies for years, an investigation by the UK government and its allies has concluded. The inquiry carried out by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in partnership with ten international allies, found the state-sponsored cyber operation has been live since 2022.