Three Kinds of Research xkcd.com/2977

Digital court systems blamed for surge in personal data breaches standard.co.uk/news/london/di… HM Courts and Tribunals Service's annual report (published in July) gov.uk/government/pub… Common Platform gov.uk/government/pub… (supplier: Scrumconnect Consulting) #dataprotection #databreaches #courtdata #govtech

Chi Onwurah 'disappointed' by Labour ministerial snub researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol… #techpolicy #datapolicy x.com/CommonsSITC/st…

So Tory Defra said my story from last year of the farming budget underspend was “categorically untrue” (and told those following it up that I’d written a false story!). Now the figures have been officially released and Whaddaya know my story was correct amp.theguardian.com/environment/20…

The UK's Geospatial Commission is running a programme for government to play around with population movement data from mobile phones, apps, etc. Notice of contract award to KPMG: Provision of an Innovation Sandbox contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/72ee2d9… #techpolicy #dataprotection #datasharing

This is the wrong direction. Land registry data should be in the public domain, not behind petty paywalls. We should be able to find out, without cost, who owns the land.

Good to see Labour backbencher Emily Thornberry MP chasing up Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's laggardly publication of spending data questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi… Previous monthly releases gov.uk/government/col… + gov.uk/government/col… #publicspending #opengov #opendata

Congratulations to Chi Onwurah 💙 for her well deserved election to the chair of Science, Innovation and Technology Committee - she brings a lot of knowledge and many years experience to this portfolio committees.parliament.uk/committee/135/…

'Consent or pay': Why UK news websites are getting tough with readers over data pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/cons… #consentorpay #dataprotection #cookielaw

Lord Krebs with a #datadiscovery problem ... hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-09-… DfE's Get Information about Schools service (aka EduBase) – which Krebs apparently did not consider – lists 129 universities in England get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments… #opendata

The dismal state of data on library services in England was highlighted in a short Lords debate yesterday hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-09-… Baroness Sanderson's review, published earlier this year gov.uk/government/new… + briefing lordslibrary.parliament.uk/public-librari… #publiclibraries #opendata 📚

Meh. This doesn't really make up for the removal of links to Google's cached versions of webpages. x.com/searchliaison/…

Development of Subsurface Heat Geospatial Platform contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/1698deb… notice of direct award of £200,995.44 Department for Energy Security and Net Zero contract to British Geological Survey #geothermalheat #renewableenergy #energypolicy #govtech #opendata-ish (OGL "should be used wherever possible")

Job – Head of Product, GOV.UK, based in Bristol or Manchester civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j… #govtech