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SOMERSET DATA HEADS NORTH

excuse me, is this the way to the gents?

 This is a floor plan of IBM's huge data centre in Warwick.

Soon all of Somerset's computer records will be dealt with and handled here. That means that your council tax details, your housing record, your children's education facts and all manner of sensitive information will be piped up a cable to IBM's base on the outskirts of the historic castle town.

Warwick is a fine place to visit. But it is not Somerset. And the people who created SouthWest One promised that the computer systems IBM was providing would be based in our county. So this news is another betrayal for the county and another lie from the lips of Alan Jones, Somerset County Council's shifty Chief Executive. Questions need to be answered:

The final question is critical. By allowing IBM to store all the county's records makes the county totally beholden to a commercial company. There is no back-up if the existing contract is ever severed. Somerset will soon scrap all its own data systems.

Think about it. Complain about it. Contact me about it: ianliddellgrainger@hotmail.co.uk

 

 

 

   
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