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Lees meerContract tender follows 'alarming' safeguarding failure at border with undocumented kids The UK's Home Office is offering £1.3 million ($1.7 million) to developers of age-determining software - a tech it wants to deploy widely across its systems.…
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Lees meerDepartment dangles £160K salary for CDIO to wrangle legacy systems, failed projects, and £1.8B budget The UK Home Office – a government department with a rich track record of failing IT projects – is on the hunt for a chief digital and innovation of…
Lees meerMeeting with former UK prime minister and his chief advisor withheld from official records, according to leaked documents Former British prime minister Boris Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings met with Peter Thiel, co-founder and chairma…
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