A Chinese woman managed to enter Japan illegally by having plastic surgery to alter her fingerprints, thus fooling immigration controls, police claim.
Lin Rong, 27, had previously been deported from Japan for overstaying her visa. She was only discovered when she was arrested on separate charges.
Tokyo police said she had paid $15,000 (£9,000) to have the surgery in China.
via BBC News - ‘Fake fingerprint’ Chinese woman fools Japan controls.
BANKING giant ANZ has admitted a branch manager breached privacy regulations to access a customer’s personal information.
But the woman whose private details were “inappropriately” viewed by the manager - who is also her next door neighbour - is demanding the man be sacked according to the bank’s own code of conduct regulations.
At the very least, Golden Grove resident Susan Clayton wants ANZ manager Phillip Saredakis transferred from her local Golden Grove branch.
“This is a serious breach of my privacy. I was brought up to believe you could trust a bank manager but I feel violated and he should be sacked,” Mrs Clayton, a 46-year-old hairdressing salon owner, said.
“It’s bad enough to live next door to him let alone having to see him at my local branch after what he did.”
A new three part series looks at why the UK has become one of the most watched places in the world - with millions of CCTV cameras, a growing network of number plate recognition cameras, one of the largest DNA databases in the world and government plans for the basic details of all our phone calls e-mails, and every internet site we visit to be logged and kept.
We all benefit from better crime detection and from easier and cheaper services. The government argues that: “If you’ve got nothing to hide, then you’ve got nothing to fear.”
He goes inside the CCTV nerve centre, sees how all of our journeys can be monitored, and meets undercover agents, those who are watched and those who have fallen foul of modern surveillance. Read the rest of this entry »
For years, we’ve been pointing out that there’s really no such thing as an anonymized dataset. There’s almost always ways to associate data back to people. We’ve seen it happen over and over again as companies claim they’re releasing an anonymous dataset, only to discover later that it’s not so difficult to re-nomynize it. In fact, there was even a recent paper on how to re-identify people based on an anonymous data set. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that yet another “anonymous dataset” has been shown not to be very anonymous. This time, it’s about GPS data that was supposed to be scrubbed of identifying info, but some researchers have found that it’s not hard to put that data back together, knowing that the two main places people go are home and their office. Read the rest of this entry »
A lawyer and genetic scientist has raised the disturbing possibility of false matches being made in the police national DNA database NDNAD. He suggests that the DNA database ? which at the end of September 2008 had 4,343,624, samples, including those from hundreds of thousands of innocent people ? is now so large that it is mathematically predicted an innocent person will be matched to a crime they did not commit.
via The rising odds of DNA false matches | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.
The Home Office has revealed more about the workings of the biometric database that will support the National Identity Scheme.
In response to questions from GC News, the IPS said the National Biometric Identity Store (NBIS), which will be built by the Identity and Passport Service under a ?265m contract with IBM, will hold both the original images and the derived templates of faces and fingerprints of applicants for passports, identity cards and visas.
The templates derived from these images will be used for automated matching purposes, but the retention of images as well means the system could function as a national database of fingerprints. An IPS spokesperson said the NBIS will be “separate and distinct” from Ident1, the existing national police fingerprint database.
via Home Office: IPS to hang onto snaps of fingerprints ? The Register.
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Mr Richard is the Head of ICT at a leading Bilingual International School in the Middle East and keen privacy advocate.