Security vendors not enthusiastic about government’s super data base
May 30, 2008
Vendors are sceptical to news that UK government is planning to set up a super data base. They cite governments track record in failing to protect several public data in past. The data base will be logging telephone call, email website visit and SMS made by 60 million UK citizens. Home office is incorporating this in the data communication bill to be announced in November. The large ISPs, which would keep the records for 12 months, and hand them over for inspection with court’s permission.
The information stored would exclude content of emails and calls. It will only store location and time. Police would be able to use it to analyse communications by and between the suspects.
Jamie Cowper of PGP Corporation, remarks that it is absurd on the part of government to bring in ‘super-data base’ when public has lost confidence in security of data. Instead government should focus on fixing and testing security of existing data base. He has apprehensions that US companies might not trust the governments standards of security.
Chief security architect Chris Mayers of Citrix UK, also opines that single data base would neither uphold national security nor protect the public. Centralised data base is not required even as per The Data Retention Directive of the European Union. Public is not likely to benefit any way. Security experts agree that public has no confidence in the security of data after the loss of 25 million records by HMRC. But Richard Archdeacon of Symantec sees a sea change in attitudes at the highest levels of government regarding security, and assures that necessary measures are going to be firmly in place.
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