UK immigration minister destroys remaining identity hard drives
11 February, 2011
category: Biometrics, Government
Damian Green, the UK immigration minister, has fed the last of the hard drives containing country’s national identity register, part of a national ID card program, into a crushing machine to destroy all the data contained on the drives, according to an article from The Guardian.
Green, who was a vocal opponent of the scheme from its introduction, has assured that the scheme’s cancellation is not due to needing to save money, but rather that it is wrong for the country’s citizens simply on principle and was useless to the holder.
The minister went on to mention that he still supports the biometric residency permits as they allow a holder better access to employment in the UK and that it isn’t nearly as invasive as national identity scheme which had 59 fields of data for each citizen.
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