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Tuesday 24 April 2007, 1:13 PM
Securing the Olympics
The chairman of the Parliamentary Olympic Group has called for the International Olympic Committee to foot the bill for both physical and information security for the London Olympics.
As UK taxpayers face a security bill set to spiral to over £1bn, Derek Wyatt MP has called for the UK to pass the bill to the IOC, which is responsible for organising the Olympics.
"The IOC want the Games. They should pay for it. It is unrealistic to expect the Home Country to foot the security bill," Wyatt said, in his keynote speech at the InfoSecurity Europe conference today.
He said that although the official estimate was for a total of £1bn to be spent on securing the Games in 2012, it was far too early to place an estimate on the figure.
But Wyatt added, "It's going to be much more than that."
The MP also raised the possibility of a conflict between the technology necessary to secure The Games, and the demands of sponsors.
Because of the size of the big eight sponsorship deals, the sponsors hold considerable rights over the technology which can be on public display at the Games.
Wyatt was backed by one of the leaders of the Security Group at the British Computer Society (BCS), who called for a broader range of technology to be embraced.
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