Monday 7 May 2018

DAVIS AND DATABASES

When the old bruiser Davis was battling the Labour government's plans for an ID system back in 2008 he had little faith in technology to store and handle data securely (HERE). He attacked them in a Guardian article as "magic" solutions. This is what he told readers:

"And there lies the difficulty [data security]. Faced with intractable problems with political pressure for a solution, the government reaches for a headline grabbing high-tech "solution". Rather than spend the resources, time and thought necessary to get a real answer, they naively grasp solutions that to the technologically illiterate ministers look like magic. And most ministers are very illiterate about any serious technology"

Well now the foot is in the other boot so to speak.

The Irish border is the "intractable problem" and both the new customs partnership and the maximum facilitation proposals are the "headline grabbing high-tech solutions".

What a berk he is.