Source: MDC wants details of BVR data storage – DailyNews Live
STAFF WRITER 22 September 2017
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has said the Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission (Zec) must state how data collected during electronic voter
registration will be stored amid fears there are inadequate security
measures to guard against unauthorised access to the voter register
database.
“The MDC demands full details, chapter and verse, of the company that is
supplying the central computer system that is being used for the BVR
system,” MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu said in a statement.
“This information is essential in order to give credibility to the whole
biometric voter registration (BVR) system.
“Zec has to come out clearly and unambiguously and advise the nation about
the source of the central computer system and also how this system is
going to be operated.”
This comes after Zec chairperson Rita Makarau told the Daily News that
“the specific details on storage and transportation of data are of a
security nature, the details of which cannot be divulged in public
forums.”
Chinese firm, Laxton Group Limited – which won the $4m tender to supply
BVR kits – highlighted in leaked documents that “Zec intends using an
alternative company to provide the central system.”
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