Why am I not surprised that Labour can't ask a question on this without giving the govt an open goal to demand more spying powers?
"She will ask about the Government's responsibilities and policies protecting consumers and infrastructure from large scale data breaches such as that suffered by Talk Talk."A normal person - ie not someone climbing the greasy pole - wouldn't have mentioned infrastructure, just consumers and the answer to that of course would be massive fines from the ICO to compensate said consumers.
In the case of TT it wouldn't be unreasonable for each customer to demand £250 compo* & that'd translate into £100million in compo plus lets say 20% for the govt. Make the fines transferrable to directors if the firm can't/won't pay.
That'd concentrate minds at board level....
People like Dido can afford it - she gets paid more than the minimum hourly wage every minute of the year (she gets paid £7.35/minute averaged over a year - or if you'd prefer it in terms of a 45 week year, 40 hours a week - that's £3611/hour.)
For "infrastructure" then that depends - private companies can sort their own out & in the event they don't the abovementioned massive fines will deal with them. For public infrastructure (is there any apart from roads/bridges & health/education?) then govt should deal with it.
The very last thing we need is more "black boxes" in private networks. Remember its likely to be people like Crapita who will end up running them
*this is the figure Barclays paid out when they lost similar data.
