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Hi Blog. Been a busy day, what with the Fingerprinting fiasco. This will be the last article (for tonight anyway) related to the issue.
One of Immigration’s mantras has been how they will take proper care of all the biometric data they drag out of their gaijin patsies.
I’m not confident of that, in light of what happened last May. This article has been sitting in my blog intray for months now, but I had a feeling it would become very relevant soon. Here it is. Incompetence in spades, these people. Arudou Debito in Sapporo
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TOKYO IMMIGRATION BUREAU LOSES PERSONAL DATA FOR TOTAL 432 FOREIGNERS
Asahi Shinbun March 28, 2007
http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0528/TKY200705280376.html
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https://www.debito.org/?p=437
(Translated by Arudou Debito)
TOKYO – Tokyo Immigration announced on March 28 that it had lost flash memory at its headquarters and Narita Airport Branch, regarding personal information for visa overstayers and deported foreigners. They say that no trace of it remains, and there is no danger of the data being misused.
The same agency said last December that an Immigration official in his thirties, based at headquarters, had lost saved memory–names, dates of birth, embarkation points, and other documented details–for 137 foreign overstayers currently being processed for deportation. Also last December, another official in his twenties based at Narita had lost saved memory in the form of a “deportation notebook”. In that, an additional 295 foreigners had had their names, dates of birth, reasons for deporting etc. recorded for deportation.
ENDS
2 comments on “Asahi: Tokyo Narita Immigration loses personal data for 432 NJ”
This is the only thing I concern about. I know in Japan every official (Policeman, Immigration officers etc. have to have own PCs to store data) Unlike other developed countries they don`t get installed desktops in the office. I know from direct Police sources this info. They carry everyday they own PCs to work with full of their work data.
Scary piece of shit!!!
UK too
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/21/technology/privacy.php