More confusion over the Government’s ill-fated ID card scheme after the Home Office minister Meg Hillier explained the system’s security measures to MPs in the wake of a string of Whitehall blunders.
She told the Home Affairs select committee: “The National Identity Register, essentially, will be a secure database… hack-proof, not connected to the internet… not be accessible online; any links with any other agency will be down encrypted links.”
By the time the transcript of Miss Hillier’s evidence was published, however, in the official Commons record, the words “hack-proof, not connected to the internet” had mysteriously been removed.
Did someone realise the claim was a hostage to fortune?
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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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