The London School of Economics (LSE) is undertaking an identity management project to examine how 10,000 staff and students manage their privacy.

The £500,000 Flame project will give LSE students and staff access to external online learning services with access privileges correlated to the amount of private information users are willing to divulge.

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Police officers will not have a single digital identity for secure access to national IT systems until two years after originally planned.

Contract tenders have been cancelled for the original multimillion-pound project, which aimed to give a single log-on method for officers accessing applications such as the Police National Computer (PNC).

The scheme, ­ first scheduled to be finished in April 2007, ­ has undergone a change in core strategy.

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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is using an IPTV network to relay live performance footage across its theatre and offices in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The performance group has secured more than £100m funding for the redesign of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, which will eventually cater for 1,030 audience members. The project also involves the relocation of staff, but the use of IP video will prevent a breakdown in communication.

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An internal crackdown on hacking activities in China has prompted speculation that the country may finally be tackling its cyber criminals.

But political organisations are claiming to have received attacks on their networks from within China, raising questions over whether the state is encouraging certain hacking actions while prosecuting others.

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