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Post Office appoints for new CTO role as “complex and extensive” tech plans unfold #PostOfficeScandal https://lnkd.in/eaJ9ZK77

Post Office bolsters its IT leadership team as it grapples with massive tech transformation with the nation looking on.

Body-worn video provider Axon is still in possession of the encryption keys for a major Police Scotland cloud IT project, despite repeated warnings from policing bodies and regulators about the data protection risks. https://lnkd.in/gJV5F7rw In January 2023, Police Scotland launched a pilot of its Digital Evidence Sharing Capability (DESC) – contracted to Axon and hosted on Microsoft’s hyperscale public cloud infrastructure – despite major unresolved data protection issues identified by its oversight body, the Scottish Police Authority (SPA). According to the police watchdog’s data protection impact assessment (DPIA) – also finalised in January 2023 – it specifically highlighted concerns around data transfers to the US (including through invasive US government legislation), and contractual issues around Microsoft’s terms and conditions that meant it was unable to comply with law enforcement-specific data protection rules. While DPIAs from other policing bodies involved in DESC claimed the data was protected while being transferred due to the use of at-rest and in-transit encryption, the SPA DPIA clearly identified that the encryption keys were held by Axon, meaning “they would be able to decrypt and provide the data, potentially without our knowledge or consent, where compelled by US authorities to do so”. In a follow-up freedom of information request sent by Computer Weekly to the SPA, the watchdog confirmed that, at the time of its response on 12 November 2024, Axon was still in possession of the encryption keys, over three months after the system was rolled out nationally at the start of August 2024.

An individual associated with the LockBit ransomware gang has broken cover to tease details of a new phase of the cyber criminal operation's activity, that they claim is set to begin in February 2025

ADM is now deployed at scale in so many sectors, often with no regulatory oversight or redress.

Conservative MP David Davis calls for public inquiry over PSNI police spying 👉 The independent McCullough review set up by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to investigate surveillance abuses lacks the necessary powers 👉 There is a significant risk that documents will be concealed without powers to demand disclosure 👉 PSNI has shown a pattern of withholding critical evidence for the Investigatory Powers Tribunal 👉 Covert surveillance of journalists and journalist sources appears to be common practice for PSNI 👉 PSNI's objective appears to be to stifle reporting on police misconduct rather than to address substantive security threats #Investigatorypowers #DavidDavisMP #BarryMcCaffrey #TrevorBirney #Nostoneunturned #PSNI #policecollusion #pressfreedom #protectionofsources

The second iteration of Amazon Web Services' committed spend discount programme for public sector IT buyers - known as the the One Government Value Agreement (OGVA) - has been live for over a year, but details of the discounts on offer through it have remained a closely guarded secret. However, Computer Weekly has learned that one local authority has been offered a minimum 22% discount on AWS standard pricing through the OGVA 2.0 scheme... in exchange for committing to growing its AWS usage by 8% a year. #ITprocurement #publicsectorIT #cloudcomputing

French court refuses to expedite trial of Sky ECC encrypted phone distributor 👉 France has indicted 30 distributors and resellers of encrypted phones that fell into the hands of organised criminals 👉 Only one person is expected to stand trial when the case goes to a special criminal court next year 👉 Canadian businessman Thomas Herdman, 64, has been held in a French prison for 42 months 👉 By the time the case is heard he will have been in jail for nearly five years 👉 His lawyers say there is no direct evidence that Herdman supplied phones that were used by criminals 👉 A court heard that a request by French investigating magistrates for assistance from Canada were refused because of lack of evidence 👉 Herdman has been refused bail #encryption #SkyEcc #organisedcrime #legal #cdsc #cryptophones

The UK government's procurement arm, the Crown Commercial Service, is facing accusations that it might have breached procurement regulations by increasing the value of its AWS cloud hosting deal midway through the contract by 89%. As per the regulations, any increase in contract value above 50% means the deal should be re-tendered... but that hasn't happened here #publicsectorIT #AWS #cloudcomputing