ID Cards Scrapped

At long last, the UK ID Card Programme has been officially scrapped. According to the Home Office :

This means that all ID cards will now be cancelled within one month and the National Identity Register, the database which contains information of card holders, will be destroyed within two months.

The Identity Card Scheme and other biometrics work has already cost the taxpayer £292 million. The Act has saved £835 million in planned future investment.

That’s one heck of a lot of money to have already spent – but far better to have saved the rest instead of spent it on such a massive white elephant.