Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ken Y-N Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: The hype has begun Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:00:27 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.43.35.138 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1195801228 20191 127.0.0.1 (23 Nov 2007 07:00:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.43.35.138; posting-account=GDnNIgoAAADF8TBGrvKMDmWPopWLFuLv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.24 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:166362 On Nov 21, 5:36 pm, Jim Breen 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. > -- > Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Ken