How the scrapped ID card database will be destroyed

"But 200 computer terminals in five "back offices", where officials processed applications and ran background checks, will be spared the crusher. Instead, workers will have to "provide file locations of extracted data" so that the Home Office team can put together an "audit record of data deletion"."

Seems to me that this is where the compromise will be. Asking "workers" to "provide file locations of extracted data"? What's the chance that some locations will be missed? And why do they not already have a registry of all locations where private data is copied?

Also, it's far easier to compromise a computer (do it remotely over the internet) then some piece of card scanning hardware (more likely to need physical access).

Security theatre, and like security theatre at airports it masks the reality that in all probability nothing of substance is actually happening.

And of course we trust all of these people to get it right and for nothing to slip through the cracks. The threat is as much about what happened in the past as what happens now. What guarantees are there that some employee didn't make their own copy of the data and take it offsite? What about backups?

The only people who have the ID cards are the ones who volunteered in the first place. They clearly don't care about their privacy so why bother going to all this effort?

Wow, a government getting rid of an intrusive system? I never thought I'd see the day.

Next week we're going to hear that they are taking down all the CCTV cameras!