Top analyst slams DWP website for failing disabled users
Top IT political analyst Philip Virgo has attacked the Department for Work and Pensions‘ (DWP) website for making it difficult to claim disability benefits.
The ...
Anonymous Justice in the Internet Age
I have just been sent a link to a story of how “Anonymous”, whoever or whatever they are, “solved” a particularly nasty case of gang rape ...
Thatcher legacy – re-opening UK broadband market to genuine competition?
Leading IT political analyst Philip Virgo argues that the UK’s broadband market needs to open up to genuine competition – a fitting tribute to the Thatcher ...
What has happened to "Fighting Identity Crime Together"?
Cross-departmental data sharing concerns A reader of the detail in my most recent blog on progress with the Universal Credit System picked up on the reference to ...
The ‘Cool’ Cyber War is over a decade old and we have lost the plot
I found Toby Harnden‘s article in the Sunday Times “Goodbye, Cold War, welcome to the Cool War” as annoying as it was illuminating.
Those without ...
.UK domain name consultation result conceals more than it reveals
.UK domain name consultation - The BBC news story about the shelving of the proposals put forward by Nominet for consultation on the .UK domain name is accurate ...
Should the penalty be for the data breach or for aiding and abetting fraud?
I have just had interesting feed back from a number of CISOs on my posting on the EU data Protection Directive. Some are still stuck in the past, adding yet more ...
Can Big Data help balance the Budget?
I have been quite scathing about the quality of government data and the need for action to improve the information management and analysis skills of those who seek ...
Cybersecurity: Will the new EU Directive do more good than harm?
Cybersecurity is fashionable. Everyone must have an initiative: from the dozens of fragmented and competing schemes across the tribes of Whitehall, Washington or ...
Internet Governance: Have we won the battle but lost the war?
We did not actually lose the WCIT battle in Dubai but appear set to lose the Internet Governance War
If you read press cover on the recent ITU conference on the ...
The 10 | 12 Scams of Christmas 2012
I have just done a quick comparison of the Scams of Christmas of Christmas since I last blogged on this topic in 2010. McAfee has again found twelve . For those ...
Rebuilding Trust in the On-Line World
The collapse of the Internet and of mobile phone networks as Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey mirrors that when Katrina hit New Orleans. Trust is earned ...
