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UK ID Card Scheme Data Deleted For £400K

Posted by timothy on from the mere-pocket-change dept.

DaveNJ1987 writes "It will cost the British government only £400,000 to destroy the data for its failed ID card initiative. The data compiled by the National Identity Register, which was scrapped last year by the coalition government, will be disposed of for the relatively small sum — in government figures — Home Office minister Damian Green confirmed."

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  1. No surprise by AmiMoJo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is the normal way the Tory Party does things. Services that the government could provide are actually business opportunities for private companies. Instead of just having IT wipe the disks why not make an easy £400k for one of your friends in the city?

    Of far more concern is the NHS. Why let the NHS perform an operation that could be making some private company some profit?

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    1. Re:No surprise by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      And old tampons are flushed down the toilet. Chalk and cheese.

      A blast furnace will turn steel into molten steel. Drugs, old tampons, cheese, computer hard disks, CDs, printed papers, flash drives, paper tape, Hollerith cards; they will all be completely destroyed.

      Not sure about the chalk though.

      The GPs right, there's no way this can possibly justify £400,000. You on the other hand are full of shit.