China’s limit on computer game time risks harming children’s education and should not be introduced in the UK, the professional body for the IT industry has said.

The UK can lead the world in creating AI that cares about humanity – provided more people from non-tech backgrounds choose the field, according to a report published today (Thursday) by the Swindon-based professional body for the IT industry.

The so-called ‘Pingdemic’ is the fault of incoherent government policy, rather than an IT failure. That’s the view of Swindon-based BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

Social media should require users to verify their identities – says the professional body for IT – following the racist abuse of England players online after their Euro 2020 final defeat.

The Chartered Institute for IT has teamed up with unlikely internet sensation Jackie Weaver to call on the Government to make online council meetings legal, post-lockdown.

Digital vaccine passports could mean entry to cinemas or pubs is ‘denied by an algorithmic decision’, the Swindon-based professional body for IT has warned.

Swindon-based professional body BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has appointed digital leader John Higgins as its new president.

The number of digital apprentices going through end-point-assessment by the industry’s professional body has increased ten-fold over the past two years, new figures show.

The wiping of 150,000 records from the Police National Computer database was likely due to best practice not being followed in three key roles, the professional body for IT has said.

Algorithms should not take the blame for last year’s exam results fiasco, says the Swindon-based organisation that represents IT professionals in the UK.

Users of Google services have today realised “their business is dependent on a stack completely outside of their control”.

Most people have had no recent help to improve their digital skills, despite the pandemic moving personal and professional life online, according to a new survey by the Swindon-based BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

The IT industry should be regulated to ensure ethical standards in areas like artificial intelligence, according to new public survey.

The majority (59 percent) of UK adults believe the profession should be kept focussed on solving society’s problems by an independent regulatory body, according to the findings of a survey by the Swindon-based BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

The software testing expert group at Swindon-based BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT has raised concerns about plans for the contact tracing app to feature ‘personalised risk scores’.

The group also identified the possibility for centralised tracking to be introduced by the backdoor.