TalkTalk attack: UK digital minister recommends security badges for websites

‘The UK’s digital minister Ed Vaizey has floated the idea of adding kitemarks to websites that have strong security measures in place, following the attack on TalkTalk’s business last week.

Speaking in Parliament on Monday in response to an urgent question on data breaches and consumer protection, following the ransack of TalkTalk’s sensitive customer details, Vaizey said:

In many cases, businesses set out extremely detailed terms and conditions, but the idea that they are consumer-friendly is wide of the mark.

If I can take, as it were, the spirit of her question [Labour MP, Gisela Stuart], some kind of kitemark to denote companies that have robust cyber-security procedures in place would be something worth exploring.’

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