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The goverment has embarked on a consultation to understand better how the umbrella market works, which is a move that has been cautiously welcomed by contracting market stakeholders

Proposed data gathering powers for UK police could override existing data protection rules, damage citizens’ trust in essential public services and further entrench discriminatory policing practices.

The supply chain has been under great pressure during the Covid-19 pandemic, not helped by several high-profile cyber attacks. In this 15-page buyers guide, Computer Weekly looks at the key considerations for business leaders going forward, the importance of data transparency and how cyber attacks on the supply chain have increased.

A poll of more than 3,000 contractors about how the roll-out of the IR35 reforms affected them brings to light widespread use of blanket bans.

Six hundred journalists spent over a year mining 2.94 terabytes of data that revealed offshore companies and the politicians, world leaders and celebrities who secretly owned them.

Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna reflect on datacentres and climate change, the tech sector’s reaction to government IT skills investment, and the Post Office scandal story.

Seventy years ago Lyons & Co ran the world’s first business computer program, marking the a start of business automation. This is a theme of computing that is still very relevant today. The ...

Goldman Sachs is building on its decade-long relationship with AWS to launch a cloud-based environment that other financial services firms can use for data analytics and processing purposes

HM Revenue & Customs accounts reveal marked rise in total number of temporary workers it engages, with most of them providing services through umbrella firms.

Evan Goldberg, chief executive officer and founder of NetSuite, reflects on the post-Covid-19 pandemic economy through the prism of the Oracle-owned SaaS company.