Towards a Hard Data Border in the UK?

If you come away from a conference, and it has made you think deeper about things, then that has been a good conference. And so today I attended Dublin Information Security 2018, and I just loved hearing from so many different viewpoints.

My main input was a presentation on the Dark Web and on the perfect crimes for Cyber criminals:

But the most interesting (for me) and the most shocking presentation was the one that related to the UK’s place in a post-Brexit world. And so, if I wasn’t already depressed about what Brexit is doing to the economy in the UK, I was even more depressed after a talk by Maria Farrell. She said more in her 30 minute talk about the likely outcomes for a post Brexit data sharing agreement than I have seen in any debate in the UK. It was one of the best conference presentations I have seen in a long time:

For all the positive things that our politicians have been saying that the UK will just continue on with friction-less borders for data, it is all likely to be WRONG! A…