Home Office

Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK

Updated Travelers told routine work being performed nationwide

On-Prem22 Sep 2023 | 43

Decades-old Home Office asylum system misses EOL deadline, no new timetable in place

Exclusive Replacement due more than a decade ago, Casework Information Database soldiers on as case backlog hits record highs

Databases06 Sep 2023 | 38

Have you ever suspected your colleague doesn't hope this email finds you well?*

Poll Grrrrrrr.... Why are you sending 15 bloody messages in 10 seconds? Stop pressing return

Offbeat10 Aug 2023 | 57

'There has never been a realistic plan' for UK's £11B Emergency Services Network

Commercial and technical risks yet to be addressed by Home Office, spending watchdog says

Networks14 Jul 2023 | 56

Up to £895M up for grabs in UK Emergency Services procurement

Here we go again: Next piece in troubled ESN upgrade

Networks18 May 2023 | 16

Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech

Building a wall... of code

Devops10 May 2023 | 166

UK's Emergency Services Network unlikely to start operating until 2029

CMA initiates price cap amid spiraling costs, Motorola Solutions to appeal

Networks06 Apr 2023 | 21

Government by Gmail catches up with UK minister... who is reappointed anyway

Home Secretary 'nominally in charge' of nation's security apologizes for breach of tech protocols

Security01 Nov 2022 | 156

UK Home Office awards Oracle a deal extension worth tens of millions

Fellow travelers in the Whitehall shared services journey await their SaaS move

SaaS07 Jun 2022 | 5

UK Home Office dangles £20m for national gun licence database system

But potential bidders will have to move fast on this one

Databases11 Mar 2022 | 99

Key pillar in the UK's border control upgrade programme 'lacks a systems integrator'

Home Office IT units confused over who is fulfilling the vital role

On-Prem14 Jan 2022 | 15

Police National Computer not pwned by Clop ransomware crims, insists Home Office

Scottish MSP Dacoll was hit, however

Security20 Dec 2021 | 20

Spending watchdog blames British Home Office for delays to £1bn crime-fighting IT system

Department says it's prepared to run ailing Police National Computer out of support if it has to

Databases13 Sep 2021 | 11

Fujitsu wins £5m contract to support the UK's troubled Border Crossing system

Chuck that on top of £63m firm already has from related projects

On-Prem09 Sep 2021 | 18

Home Office slams PNC tech team: 'Inadequate testing' of new code contributed to loss of 413,000 records

Poorly defined business requirements, failure in documentation, independent report finds

Storage26 May 2021 | 33

The Home Office will need to overturn a long legacy of failure to achieve ambition of all-digital border by 2025

Who needs precedent when you have Priti Patel and a 'contactless corridor'

On-Prem24 May 2021 | 77

Anyone for Palantir? UK.gov names gaggle of vendors to fight for contracts in £1.2bn back office application framework

It's time to crack open the public sector pork barrel.... like it was ever closed

Applications21 Apr 2021 | 7

Won't somebody please think of the children!!! UK to mount fresh assault on end-to-end encryption in Facebook

Change the record, nobody's fooled by this now

Security19 Apr 2021 | 122

UK Home Office tenders £5m for a supplier to help it greenlight IT projects. Yes, you read that correctly

Procurement raises questions over supplier creating its own sales pipeline within govt

Channel19 Apr 2021 | 16

UK's Home Office dangles £32m for application support on comms-snooping network

No prior experience of working with the intelligence community? 'Knowledge of the technological landscape' will do

Security30 Mar 2021 | 14

Oracle gets the bunting out for UK Home Office's Fusion go-live amid enterprise software shakeup across Whitehall

Idea was to shift all departments to Big Red's cloud, but some are on Microsoft, Workday, SAP, Integra, and so on

Databases24 Mar 2021 | 1

Delayed UK digital border system was only stable enough to be used by 4% of intended users, MPs say

Go-live deadline of 2019 whooshed by - and that's going to cost taxpayer £173m

On-Prem15 Mar 2021 | 42

Like a challenge in a high profile 'face-of-IT' role? Welcome to the Home Office

Talk about a hostile environment... It's £70k+ but you'll really sweat for it

Security04 Mar 2021 | 41

Missing GOV.UK web link potentially cost taxpayers £50m as civil servants are forced to shuffle paper forms

Exclusive medConfidential spots tiny yet staggering online blunder

Legal01 Feb 2021 | 69

150,000 lost UK police records looking more like 400,000 as Home Office continues to blame 'human error'

That technical issue the department said it had fixed? It didn't exist

Storage18 Jan 2021 | 154

Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database

This has got to be the Who Me? story of all time...

Storage15 Jan 2021 | 102

UK Home Office chucks US firm Leidos £30m for help snooping on comms data

Er, we mean fighting terrorism and organised crime!

Security17 Dec 2020 | 17

Delay upgrading the UK's legacy border systems has added £336m to taxpayers' bill

Spending watchdog report retells sad history of Home Office IT failings

On-Prem09 Dec 2020 | 35

UK Court of Appeal rebukes Home Office for exceeding its powers with bunkum 'national security' GSM gateway ban

Updated Legal saga that began with dodgy prosecution ends in vindication

Networks20 Nov 2020 | 31

UK Home Office seeks suppliers: £25m up for grabs to build database to keep track of crimelords' ill-gotten gains

Seized assets system is 15 years old, counts cash of fraud dept, tax bods, courts, cops and more

Software07 Sep 2020 | 29

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Here's hoping the winner does a better job than Sopra Steria

On-Prem01 Jun 2020 | 30

UK Home Office opens AWS cash firehose even wider with £100m public cloud services deal

Updated Every little helps, right Jeff?

SaaS10 Jan 2020 | 21

Infosec boffins pour cold water on claims Home Office Brexit app can be easily hacked

'Unnecessary scaremongering' but still some work to be done

Security14 Nov 2019 | 18

UK Home Office: We will register thousands of deactivated firearms with no database

All that is needed is an email inbox, say civil servants

Legal08 Nov 2019 | 112

Concerns raised over privacy and security of UK Home Office's £842m biometrics programme

Updated Plans to aggregate it with other databases should be discussed, says ethics group

Databases05 Nov 2019 | 20

Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told

Also reliant on HMRC's shaky Customs Declaration Service

Legal08 Oct 2019 | 221

Can you code a way to foil online terrorist vids? The Home Office might just have £600K for you

UK.gov wants 'algorithm' to be shared with other tech firms

Security24 Sep 2019 | 27

Chinese students in UK ripe target for scammers exploiting visa concerns

Add in Brexit outsourcing mess and it's plain to see why young international scholars get duped

Security19 Sep 2019 |

UK Home Office web form snafu allows you to both agree and disagree – strongly – all at once

Government cares what you think. Honest

Security17 Sep 2019 | 53

Red flag: Home Office inks £45m border tech extension with IBM

After 15 years, Semaphore DB that flags up persons of interest goes into extra (Brexit) time

Security04 Sep 2019 | 16

Home Office told to stop telling EU visa porkies

Government dept finally called out... by Britain's ad watchdog. We guess everyone else was busy

Legal28 Aug 2019 | 97

New UK Home Sec invokes infosec nerd rage by calling for an end to end-to-end encryption

Yep, Patel continues age-old tradition. Plus: Five Eyes word games

Security31 Jul 2019 | 232

Freshly outsourced Home Office project: Overseas student visa IT slammed for delays

And the rush hasn’t started yet

On-Prem29 Jul 2019 | 18

Hello Moto! UK Home Office shoves comms giant another £82m to stay on Emergency Services Network gig

More delays ahead for troubled programme

Networks21 Jun 2019 | 16

Yeah, you're not having a GSM gateway, Ofcom tells hopeful operators

UK.gov hasn't appealed High Court ruling yet – but regulator upholds ban anyway

Networks28 May 2019 | 24

UK Home Office: If we want Ofcom to break the law, that should be perfectly legal

Department to appeal High Court ruling over ministerial powers

Networks13 May 2019 | 20

Home Office cops an earful for emergency network feck-ups - £3bn overbudget and 3 years late

Red warning light for blue-light comms

Networks10 May 2019 | 52

Cop watchers to probe UK police sharing data on witnesses' migration status with Home Office

Handing over info on migration status deters crime reports, say rights groups

Legal29 Mar 2019 | 12

UK.gov flushed away £15k defending pupil nationality data slurp – then canned scheme

Department for Education slammed over wasting cash

Legal26 Mar 2019 | 15

So Windrush happened, and yet UK Home Office immigration data still has 'appalling defects'

Could errors affect other applications? Dunno. When will new systems be online? Dunno

Legal06 Mar 2019 | 36

UK Home Office dumps huge sack of complex data sets on biometrics ethics board's desk, goes for beer (probably)

Roses are red, gave Violet pick 'n' mix. She didn't like the milk bottles. Now back to ethics

Legal14 Feb 2019 | 5

Cheap call? Hardly. GSM gateway judicial review to settle whether UK Home Sec can legally push comms watchdog around

Grey area in comms law needs a tad more black and white

Networks05 Feb 2019 | 37

Campaigners get go-ahead to challenge exemption UK gave itself over immigrants' data

Sueball lobbed at Brit government over Data Protection Act

Legal17 Jan 2019 | 11

The British Home Office was warned about its crappy data management – then Windrush happened

Watchdog's report damning amid calls for 'firewall' for immigration data sharing

Legal05 Dec 2018 | 25

Skimming cash off UK police budget for tech projects probably not the best idea, say MPs

Particularly when those projects overrun and overspend

Legal09 Nov 2018 | 6

Concerns over cops' crap computer kit: UK MPs call for cash, capacity, command

Report slams digital policing and Home Office's leadership

Legal31 Oct 2018 | 22