Wait a minute...
Isn't this the same idiots who are considering deep packet inspection and retention of all internet traffic? Right hand, meet left hand.
The Information Commissioner's Office needs you to help it deal with the privacy implications of new technology. The ICO admitted in August that it needed to "develop our understanding of the impact of technology on privacy and ensure that this informs our policy making". The watchdog is appointing a Technology Reference …
£39k is not an enormous salary, if you read the job and person specification. The post-holder is expected to take on a considerable leadership role and have significant experience in several diverse areas. The post reports to the Deputy Commissioner.
OK, I know that we're meant to be bearing down on feather-bedded gold-plated trough-snouting civil servants, but speaking *as* an FBGPTSCS, I just invite you to consider whether you would get that sort of expertise from any of the consulting companies at a gross cost of say £50k p.a. It would be more like £200k, in my experience.
They admit to not being sufficiently knowledgeable about the technology and need to hire some help - that's good. They expect to get it for less than £40k a year - that's laughable. I know the pool of people they ought to be recruiting from - hell, I can list half a dozen excellent candidates immediately - and none of them are even going to bother reading beyond the the second line of the job ad that says "£35,816 - £39,137".
Not even Kermit the Frog (tm) would apply for that job given the pittance offered, and he was a good muppet.
The job actually sounds quite interesting and challenging....However, one senses a slow painful death due to banging ones head against a wall may be the outcome in the long run.
Pay peanuts and you get monkeys, or peanut eating muppets.
40 kilopounds (tee-hee, Trevor!) -- which is what, ~ $80K U.S.? -- would buy a nice bit of tech knowhow in my neck of the woods, but I'm guessing that in real cities with real costs of living, 40K might buy a college grad. However, if the unemployment rate remains favorable (for management, not labor) and the foreclosure demons continue to cast their long shadows across the land, one might have better pick of the labor pool litter.
we could put in a coltive bid to do the job as a team and split the mony
the reg could right the stories and we could all make scarcastic comments on them whail we do our other jobs and then we could submit a bill to the goverment. apart form the mony it seames to be what we do anyway