FarSeas

13 hours ago, Evilbaz said:

 

I'm well aware that the OZ immi computers are linked to Centrelink and Medicare.

 

But what benefits was he on?

He was on a job seeker benefit - by the letter of the law, payments *do* get suspended if you leave the country, and re-instated when you return. So there was nothing inherently unfair about what I described, my statement was merely to illustrate the 'connectedness' of everything, including border control

The level of data collecting and cross matching that is happening goes as deep as one may imagine, which makes me think that the implementation of fingerprint data is a bit behind the times. 

1 hour ago, Bazle said:

Maybe it has little to do with Immigration but more connected with crime.

Illegal immigration is a crime. 

But its really about universal data collection, profiling and monitoring. It's really quite sinister how everything is connected. A friend of mine (in Australia we're talking here) who is on Centrelink (ie social security benefits) had his payments stopped because he briefly needed to leave the country. 

Do you know how long it took for the Social Services department to alert him via to this suspension? 

18 hours after he went through the gates at Sydney airport. 

16 minutes ago, midas said:

 Fingerprint technology will rapidly become obsolete at airports because eye scans are considerably more efficient

 

 

http://fortune.com/2017/03/11/tascent-eye-scanning-airport-security/

Exactly. Biometric data is a near-future reality and facial recognition already plays a huge part in the passenger screening process at some airports. By comparison, fingerprinting is decidedly antiquated. Combined with the 'smart passport' that contains a chip (even my 10 year old book is chipped) then in a few years no human will even need to look at a travelers physical passport book. 

In Australia, SmartGate is leading the way in this level of security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartGate

I was in and out of both Bangkok airports four times in late February this year and saw no such thing.