Governments step up their efforts to capitalize on what information they have on travelers and citizens to reduce long term societal costs at customs points. Software that matches data is being planned to be used to close gaps with customs, such as with suspected illegal imports, in New Zealand. Inspection prompts that are standard amongst most nations, including Korea, such as inspection of parcels destined for those with drug records, applied to a trial of the software scenario tools utilizing fictitious persons, revealed that data matching closes gaps in the capture of illegal importers.
The innovation achieves results by the use of multiple data sources that examine suspicious relationships and relate events to likelihood of involvement in a set parameter. The obvious data sources for the project are records on offences held by governments. Data sources regarding the relationships of persons to other suspects, however arbitrarily, fires the imagination of New Zealand citizens and those citizens of nations with planned spending in the area of border security, such as Korea. According to what is reported, this or these mysterious data sources might expose persons as potential suspects by relation.
The system, a biometric advance that is still in planning and conceptual refinement, is suggested to save money in the long run, not necessarily within the same department but to New Zealand on the whole. The reductions are predicted to come by reducing related efforts to control a set parameter, such as drugs in the community, reducing costs for taxpayers. The project is expected to be presented as a business case to the New Zealand government in late 2010. The project, now at stage two, is an effort to improve New Zealand immigration.
