Articles on government IT

MI5 makes 1,061 bugging errors
Guardian Government Computing, Jul 1, 2011

Privacy groups take Royston’s ANPR plans to ICO
Guardian Government Computing, Jun 10, 2011

Open up the numberplate recognition camera system
Guardian Comment is Free, May 17, 2011

Minister destroys national identity register
Guardian Government Computing, Feb 10, 2011

A tale of two cameras (council CCTV in Wandsworth and West Oxfordshire)
Guardian Government Computing, Sep 23, 2010

Oxfordshire reveals ANPR traffic camera sites
Guardian Government Computing, Aug 3, 2009

Pushing the button (e-democracy in Bristol)
Guardian Society, Mar 23, 2006

Your life in your hands (how the emergency services track mobile phones)
Guardian E-public, Dec 1, 2004

Private pain, public gain: learning from the private sector
Public Service Magazine, October-November 2004

Knowing me, knowing you (the database state, featuring comment from rising MP David Cameron)
Guardian Online, Jun 24, 2004

Eyes on the child: how good is phone tracking?
Guardian Online, Jan 29, 2004

Image problem (David Blunkett’s plans for ID cards)
Guardian Online, Nov 20, 2003

Video ring to unite islanders (Orkney Island Council and videoconferencing, picture above)
Government Computing, Sep 2002

You can ring, but you can’t hide (what mobile phone companies hold on customers)
Guardian Online, Nov 29, 2001

Smallest post office gets net (Dores in the Highlands of Scotland)
Guardian Online, Jul 26, 2001

In sight of the law (how the authorities track citizens)
Guardian Online, Mar 1, 2001

All Guardian articles