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London airspace restriction due to server failure
London airspace was closed on 12 December until 19:00 due to a ‘technical failure’ at the National Air Traffic Services (NATS). European air traffic control coordinating organisation Eurocontrol said,...
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Cameron flirts with ban on encrypted messaging apps
The UK may ban online messaging services that offer encryption such as WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage, under surveillance plans laid out by Prime Minister David Cameron. Services that allow people to...
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UK government appoints first Chief Data Officer
Mike Bracken has been appointed as the first ever government chief data officer, to go alongside his role as Executive Director of Digital in the Cabinet Office, and head of the Government Digital...
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UK government offers £20m for driverless car competition
The UK government is offering £20 million (€28.7 million) to research and develop driverless cars and fast-track the technology within the UK. It is hoped the competition, launched on Friday, will put...
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CMS Distribution appointed distributor for AVG Business Security Solutions
CMS Distribution, the independent value-added distributor, has been appointed the Irish and UK distributor for AVG Business security solutions. CMS Distribution will provide the AVG Business product...
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Brexit and data
The potential exit of Britain from the European Union, or ‘Brexit’ as it has been dubbed, has been examined from various angles, mostly political and economic. From the tech side of things, trade deals...
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Brexit: Dog finally catches car
We all woke this morning to the news that Britain had voted to leave the European Union. The early demographics are very interesting showing that the leave vote was primarily among the older...
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Brexit vote may have little effect on UK data protection rules
With the haircut that the sterling-euro exchange rate has taken in the wake of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, the UK has suddenly become a low-cost country for companies wishing to host or...
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Brexit could cause data privacy headaches for US companies
The impact of the United Kingdom vote to withdraw from the European Union could have far-reaching consequences for international companies, which may need to rethink their data management policies. “As...
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Yes with an if, no with a but…
Well, Brexit is the issue that just keeps on giving! Last week, as the world settled down to the shock result of the Brexit vote, not only did the Tory leadership race take centre stage, but in another...
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UK told no more bulk comms data retention
European governments must not oblige network operators to indiscriminately retain bulk customer communications data, the European Union’s top court has reaffirmed. The ruling by the Court of Justice of...
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Irish developers among top earners across Ireland and the UK
Irish developers are better paid than the majority of their counterparts in the UK, according to the latest Developer Hiring Landscape Report, from Stack Overflow. On average, Irish developers earn up...
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Played and lost
So, alea iacta est. Theresa May has played her hand and lost. A Conservative majority government is now set to become a minority one, relying on the absence of Sinn Féin and the support of the...
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Brexit Report
As political upheavals go, it is undoubtedly going to go down in history. On 23 June 2016, David Cameron held a referendum on the issue of the UK withdrawing from the European Union and a ‘modest...
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UK ICO dispels GDPR myths
Reports on the imminent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have featured so much misinformation that UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has had to dedicate much of her time separating...
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IBM ‘had not seen evidence’ of rigorous testing ahead of TSB migration disaster
IBM had not seen evidence of ‘rigorous’ testing ahead of TSB’s disastrous core banking platform migration in April this year, according to an early report by the vendor after it was brought in to help...
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UK Conservative Party conference app leaks attendee data
The conservative party conference kicked off in Birmingham on Sunday and for the very first time is making use of a dedicated app to grant attendees easy access to conference information. However,...
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UK to tax internet giants
The UK is to introduce a 2% tax on technology giants such as Amazon, Facebook and Google, from 2020 that will target revenues earned in the United Kingdom, according to plans outlined by the Chancellor...
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UK MPs call for a cyber security minister to defend critical infrastructure
A parliamentary committee has urged the government to appoint a dedicated cyber security minister to help protect the country’s critical national infrastructure (CNI). The joint committee on national...
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No deal Brexit means third country data status for UK
In the event of a no-deal Brexit, the European Union has made it clear that there will be no interim adequacy decision for the UK, meaning personal data transfers will be affected. Addressing the...
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