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Opposition parties criticise Budapest transport company for electronic sales failure
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The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) has called on Budapest’s public transport company BKK to switch off its electronic ticket sales system, insisting that its current bugs make customers’ personal data vulnerable.
The green opposition LMP has called for BKK head Kálmán Dabóczi’s dismissal.
Erzsébet Gy. Németh, DK’s municipal representative in Budapest, on Saturday voiced protest against the arrest of a 18-year-old youth who had reported a problem with the system. Gy. Németh insisted that rather than subjecting him to a police interrogation in the middle of the night the software developer should have been grateful for his report. “It would not happen in a normal country,” she said.
Gy. Németh also criticised Dabóczi for his way of communication, and said that an official whose salary comes from taxpayers’ money “cannot speak to BKK passengers the way he did”.
One way to cover your failures is to accuse those that point them out… this is the maximum of arrogant paranoia and amateurism …. BKK should reconsider the whole design at the expense of the developer