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Data

UK finance authorities beef up data strategies

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Bank of England (BoE) have announced plans to transform their data and analytics capabilities, with the setting up of dedicated data science units […]

Creation of data council among new US data plan actions

The USA is set to establish a national data council, having announced its launch in the final version of the country’s Federal Data Strategy 2020 Action Plan. The final action […]

Spain gathers anonymised phone tracking data to shape public services

The Spanish Institute of Statistics (INE) is using location data from millions of mobile phones to gain insights into citizens’ movements. The aim is to enable government to better manage […]

Campaigners raise alerts over UK health data sharing deals

Privacy campaigners have criticised a contract between the NHS and Amazon allowing the tech giant to use health information, and deals that give pharmaceutical companies access to patient record data. […]

Opinion: the ‘power of where’ – realising the potential of geospatial data

For millennia maps have guided exploration, supported trade and allowed us to defend our nations and maintain the social fabrics of our societies. They tell the story of human endeavour […]

UK education department faces sanction over data protection breaches

The UK Department for Education (DfE) is facing disciplinary action for what a watchdog has called “wide ranging and serious concerns” over data protection breaches. Privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s […]

‘Dark web’ data sale threatens vast government data breach

Personal information including the names, dates of birth and taxpayer IDs of 92 million Brazilians is being advertised for sale on the ‘dark web’, in what could be one of […]

Former Australian departmental chief calls for an end to performance pay

The former chief of staff to prime minister Paul Keating has said he is “absolutely certain” that performance-related pay doesn’t work in the Australian Public Service (APS). Allan Hawke – […]

UK MPs call for ‘long overdue’ change in government’s approach to data

A highly critical report from the UK’s parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found that a long-standing failure to improve the quality of data in government has led to inadequate services, poor […]

New Zealand beefs up IT security after government data breach

New Zealand has clamped down on government agencies using unvetted IT service providers, following a data breach which saw a supplier inadvertently leak hundreds of people’s personal information.    The […]