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computerweekly.bsky.social @computerweekly.bsky.social · Jun 27

It's your last chance today to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology in 2025 - submit your vote here:

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666260...

UKtech50: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology | Computer Weekly

This is your opportunity to vote for the 2025 edition of Computer Weekly’s annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK technology – the chief information officers, industry ex...

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computerweekly.bsky.social @computerweekly.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congratulations to the 50 leaders shortlisted for the 2025 #UKtech50 list of the most influential people in UK technology - but who should top the list? It's time to submit your vote...

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666260...

UKtech50: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology | Computer Weekly

This is your opportunity to vote for the 2025 edition of Computer Weekly’s annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK technology – the chief information officers, industry ex...

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computerweekly.bsky.social @computerweekly.bsky.social · Jun 12

Congratulations to the record 471 people nominated for the longlist in our #UKtech50 annual search for the most influential people in UK technology. Thanks for all your nominations - watch out soon for the reader vote on the final shortlist of 50...

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666257...

UKtech50 2025: the longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders | Computer Weekly

With a record number of nearly 500 nominees, finding the top 50 most influential people in UK IT is a mammoth task, with so many deserving candidates, especially in a challenging economic climate.

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Jun 9

I really enjoyed the opportunity to speak at #sxswlondon last week, about "When tech goes wrong - how not to be the next Post Office scandal". My presentation is online now, if anyone is interested in taking a look...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPyE...

How not to be the next Post Office scandal

YouTube video by Computer Weekly

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computerweekly.bsky.social @computerweekly.bsky.social · May 20

Friday 23rd May this week is the deadline for you to submit nominations in our annual search for the most influential people in UK technology. Tell us who, and why, our expert judges should consider...

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666217...

UKtech50 2025 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT | Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly has launched its 15th annual UKtech50, our search for a definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK technology.

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · May 19

Calm settles over the digital identity market, for now - at least, until Google and Apple come bounding over the horizon. My take on last week's government & industry summit meeting:

www.computerweekly.com/blog/Compute...

Calm settles over digital identity market - for now... (Hark, is that Big Tech on the horizon?)

A relative calm has settled over the digital identity sector after months of worry and vitriol – for now, at least. Digital ID players have largely welcomed the government’s announcement of the ...

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · May 16

External security tests have uncovered a serious vulnerability in the Gov.UK One Login digital identity system whereby privileged access can be compromised without detection - read more here:

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666239...

Security tests reveal serious vulnerability in government’s One Login digital ID system | Computer Weekly

A “red teaming” exercise conducted in March by IT security consultancy Cyberis discovered that privileged access to One Login can be compromised without detection by security monitoring tools.

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · May 15

@computerweekly.bsky.social reports on yesterday's showdown between @SciTechgovuk
and the digital ID industry over the GovUK Wallet and competitive concerns:

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666239...

Government starts private sector engagement on digital ID and Gov.uk Wallet | Computer Weekly

The government has met with industry representatives to discuss the future of the digital identity market, following backlash from the sector after concerns that the wallet would push private digital ...

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · May 13

Another one for the digital identity crowd...

The government’s GovUK One Login digital identity system has lost its certification against the government’s own DIATF trust framework for digital identity systems. Read the full story here:

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666238...

Gov.uk One Login loses certification for digital identity trust framework | Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly has learned that a key technology supplier to One Login chose to allow its certification to lapse, and as a result One Login has also been removed from the accreditation scheme.

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · May 9

Fair point - and one that remains unresolved and which nobody really wants to talk about...

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · May 9

Wednesday 14th May is set to be an important day in the long, slow, painful evolution of the use of digital identity in the UK, as UKgov finally meets with a worried private sector. What's up for grabs? I took a look...

www.computerweekly.com/blog/Compute...

UK government set to finally meet with digital identity providers - but will anything change?

Wednesday 14 May is set to be an important day in the long, slow, painful evolution of the use of digital identity in the UK. For the first time since the government announced its digital wallet ...

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 25

That's why - as we exclusively revealed last year - the final bill for replacing Horizon is likely to be about the same £1bn+ figure as the compensation bill.

Only when keeping Horizon became a bigger risk for Post Office than ditching it, did they decide they had to do so (8/8)

bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 25

And even then, the £1bn+ compensation bill (paid by taxpayers of course, not by PO itself) was not enough to counter the risk of bringing Horizon in-house or of ditching it entirely... (7/8)

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 25

...the combined cost and risk of bringing Horizon in-house was prohibitive, at least it was until they were forced to accept liability for the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history... (6/8)

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 25

No company can simply switch off such mission-critical software and move to something else overnight.

For Post Office, it's always been a risk management issue... (5/8)

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 25

...it was simply that PO didn't have the skills or institutional capability and knowledge to bring the entire support operation in-house. Even today, Horizon IS the Post Office - without Horizon you can't run the business... (4/8)

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 25

Most likely, a copy of the software code would be stored in escrow to protect the buyer if the supplier went bust.

The reason Post Office couldn't get off Horizon was nothing to do with IP ownership... (3/8)

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 25

When the Horizon deal was signed in late 1990s it was common for companies to not own the IP of software developed in an outsourcing contract. It was a negotiating point- you could own the IP if you wanted to, but the supplier would charge you extra for it. Caveat emptor... (2/8)

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 25

🧵It's great to see the BBC keeping #PostOfficeScandal front and centre in its headlines- but I found this a slightly odd story (and not only because there's nothing you wouldn't already know if you've been reading @computerweekly.bsky.social regularly...) (1/8)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bluesky

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 23

Digital ID sector calls for changes to government data legislation

@computerweekly.bsky.social has reported on the rift between digital ID suppliers and the Dept for Science, Innovation and Technology - now those suppliers are publicly appealing for change:

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666228...

Digital ID sector calls for changes to government data legislation | Computer Weekly

The digital identity sector is calling on the government to amend its forthcoming data legislation, and to change policy around use of the Gov.uk Wallet – which was technology secretary Peter Kyle’s f...

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 16

After this week's revelations over security problems in One Login and growing industry concerns over UKgov digital identity policy, my latest take on where we are:

UK digital identity turns to drama (or farce?) over industry fears and security doubts -

www.computerweekly.com/blog/Compute...

UK digital identity turns to drama (or farce?) over industry fears and security doubts

Government at loggerheads with industry. Warnings of serious security and data protection problems undermining a vital public service. A burgeoning political campaign seeking greater influence. You .....

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 14

My understanding is the digital identity team OK'd the offshore work, they just didn't tell anyone else...

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 14

According to claims by a whistleblower, many of the security problems that were reported have yet to be resolved (4/4)

Read the full story here:

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666225...

Government faces claims of serious security and data protection problems in One Login digital ID | Computer Weekly

The Government Digital Service (GDS) was warned by the Cabinet Office and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) that its One Login digital identity system had “serious data protection failings” an...

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 14

Problems were confirmed by an internal investigation led by GDS’s CISO. But when an MP wrote to the Cabinet Office to enquire about potential issues around the information security of One Login, GDS did not mention any of the warnings in its response (3/4)

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bryanglick.bsky.social @bryanglick.bsky.social · Apr 14

The Government Digital Service was warned by Cabinet Office and National Cyber Security Centre that One Login had “serious data protection failings” and “significant shortcomings” in information security that could increase the risk of data breaches and identity theft (2/4)

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