So the Great Bottler's (ever-so-gentle) grilling by the Liaison Committee throws up this pearl of wisdom from him: "We've got a long way to go" [to develop a coherent Government IT strategy] (reports here and here; interesting to note that the BBC headline uses an 'edited' version of the phrase, "way to go" rather than "a long way to go"!?!). Talk about stating the bleeding obvious.
One other thing is nagging me about the Government's current focus on data security and trying to do something about it. It is all so much closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. And what really worries me is that I'm wholly unconvinced that the Government (or even Parliament) have the wit/capacity/expertise/inclination to (mixing my metaphors) put the genie back in the bottle. There is a very real and chilling prospect that, as of the current situation, we will just have to live with the simple fact that any rights we may once have had to privacy and the security of our data have been irretrievably compromised by the utter incompetence and complacency of those whom were charged with protecting them!!! Scary stuff!
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