"But 200 computer terminals in five "back offices", where officials processed applications and ran background checks, will be spared the crusher. Instead, worke

"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).