On Nov 21, 5:36 pm, Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Fingerprint checks on foreigners arriving in Japan matched five people
> to an immigration blacklist on the first day, the Justice Ministry says."
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/21/2097413.htm

I saw various figures elsewhere that suggests:

1) Five people is a slow day in the deportation department

2) Three were on fake passports; the average for 2006 was about 2 per
day

3) For UK police, checking a single fingerprint versus a criminal
database takes hours. I don't know how having a "clean" machine-read
print would change that figure

4) Various people suggest that the verification is not actually live,
but batched up at the end of each day

5) Since three had fake passports, perhaps two were using their
original passports so their names were on blacklists

In summary, there seems to be little evidence to support the claim
that fingerprinting caught them.

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> Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/

Ken