U.K. government loses data on driving-test candidates
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Hard disk containing details on 3 million candidates goes missing at facility run by contractor for the Driving Standards Agency.
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The government has missed all its key targets for GCSE-level exam performance in England this year.
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Prints might just be needed for 'special' groups a key component of the UK ID card scheme, the central database of fingerprints, may be abandoned, according to a leaked Home Office document obtained by the Observer. The document doesn't suggest entirely scrapping fingerprints, but instead suggests that their value should be assessed for each group of the population enrolled.â¦
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Prestige contract goes Pearson shaped A Hard drive containing personal details of three million candidates for the UK driving theory test has gone missing from a "secure facility" in, perplexingly, Iowa, Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly has told the House of Commons. The hard drive went missing in May, but 'only' includes name, address, phone number and email - no financial data.â¦
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'Black box' for police vehicles Data recorders should be fitted to all police vehicles, says a report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).â¦
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Limited trial Passengers booked on one of two flights out of Heathrow will be able to skip queues if they hand over fingerprint and other biometric data.â¦
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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown had the unfortunate task Monday of disclosing yet another incident of data loss, this time on drivers with the British equivalent of a learner's permit.
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The Government have hit back at claims they should have done more to protect the British Grand Prix. The race was dropped from the provisional 2005 calendar after Silverstone&#39;s owners, the British Racing Drivers
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Psychological assessments should become part of the UK driving test, a road safety expert says.
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Just in time for the Olympics The British government is delaying the roll out of the national ID card scheme to UK citizens, according to leaked documents obtained by the Tory party.â¦
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Zero-Now loses fight for Milton Keynes data A company has lost its fight to gain access to data about public services in Milton Keynes for use on its website.â¦
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Four CDs with personal details from court cases have gone missing in the post, the government admits.
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The Labour government rejected plans for ID cards 30 years ago, records released under the 30-year rule reveal.
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The agency released an intentionally scrambled, partly deleted version of the safety data it gathered from 24,000 interviews with airline pilots.
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The British government faced fresh embarrassment over losing data Monday after admitting that over three million learner drivers' records were mislaid by a contractor in the United States.
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Complaint lodged about party allegedly under-reporting value of shadow cabinet flights
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The Conservatives on Wednesday demanded a government statement on the handling of data on foreign crime suspects after authorities admitted they had failed for a year to match details sent by the Dutch police on 15 serious crime suspects held in the British DNA police databank.