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Storage and processing location is a big, big trust issue on the world stage. There are all sorts of wobbly notions of alignment. And no doubt lots of leverage
by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Storage and processing location is a big, big trust issue on the world
stage. There are all sorts of wobbly notions of alignment. And no
doubt lots of leverage going on behind.
If you made a democratic poll and asked people, "would you like
national data stored in your own country or elsewhere?" there would be
no ambiguity in the answer. And that would not be an "uninformed"
poll, since matters of public trust should direct policy and not
technics and economics.
Of course there are good reasons for outsourcing, like geographical
diversity, but those raise a new and I think separate questions like
"Who would you trust with our backups?". That nuance of examination
seems to be missing in the UK at present.
- pjc50 2y ago> "would you like national data stored in your own country or elsewhere?" And if you ask the question "how much more would you pay to host UK data in the UK with UK owned providers only", you get the answer £0. So it doesn't happen.
- nonrandomstring 2y agoYes. I mean it's a fair objection to that question as is. Many people expect technology to happen magically and for free. When it comes to critical infrastructure like roads, reservoirs and the army, nobody asks "how much would I pay?", because people elected a government to make those decisions and raise taxes appropriately. Ironically one big missing source of income is fair tax on overseas tech. Although we have a body that recognises digital as critical national infrastructure [0], some people in London haven't got the memo yet. [0] https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/ncsc-warns-of-emerging-threat-to-critical-national-infrastructure https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/ncsc-warns-of-emerging-threat-t...