From: Ad 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/18/global_immigration/

Cough cough....cough cough cough....cough cough cough cough.....

I love the pols use of the fuutre tense as a way of "consulting about
things wotv already appened".

It's called tilling.....chuck your seed on a grass field & bugger all
will sprout....so you plough, you harrow etc till the public is a fine
tilth & you plant & then....you consult them about your
"plans" about "erecting a field of maize in a short
while...."


"Launching the UK's borders and immigration strategy in Washington
today, Home Secretary John Reid said the UK and US should "routinely
share information about travellers of interest", as well as people
caught with fake passports, or those trying to side-step immigration
controls."

Oh indeed we do...I mean should......

""Today we are undertaking to improve that co-operation through
better exchange of immigration data and working together to tackle the
reasons for migration," he said in a statement.

The UK Borders and Immigration Agency's Strategy to build stronger
international alliances to manage migration, published today, proposes
establishing the international legal basis to share biometric immigration
data.

It said the UK would "rapidly" bring forward plans to use other
technologies to pick undesirables out of queues at UK borders. It proposed
"voice analysis" as one example. New technologies would be used
for the "scientific and technical identification of nationality"
and to "fix people's identities"."

Oh indeed...very rapidly......

Beware govs & db'es . They are building them & then informing you
that they can suddenly/rapidly implement them.....

Odd how no gov IT program has ever shown itself capable of  being brought
forward "rapidly" esp one requiring the buy in & cross border
implementations etc by a variety of national govs....Gee 3-4 years ago...

Compare what I was saying then with:

"The UK, US, Australia, and "some European countries" had
already made steps in this direction.

"We will build on the commitment of the Four Country Conference of the
UK, USA, Canada and Australia in April 2007 to develop projects that will
underpin a framework for systematic exchange of data," said the
report. Similar arrangements were being promoted in Europe."



Anyway.... read on McDuff.

"The UK has proposed a transatlantic arrangement for sharing biometric
data about travellers as US coalition countries in the "war on
terror" push for a global system to control migration.

The initiative officially lays the first brick in a concerted effort to
establish a common border.

Launching the UK's borders and immigration strategy in Washington today,
Home Secretary John Reid said the UK and US should "routinely share
information about travellers of interest", as well as people caught
with fake passports, or those trying to side-step immigration controls.

He proposed greater co-operation between coalition countries because, he
said, the UK couldn't protect its borders "by operating in a
bubble".

"Today we are undertaking to improve that co-operation through better
exchange of immigration data and working together to tackle the reasons for
migration," he said in a statement.

The UK Borders and Immigration Agency's Strategy to build stronger
international alliances to manage migration, published today, proposes
establishing the international legal basis to share biometric immigration
data.

It said the UK would "rapidly" bring forward plans to use other
technologies to pick undesirables out of queues at UK borders. It proposed
"voice analysis" as one example. New technologies would be used
for the "scientific and technical identification of nationality"
and to "fix people's identities".

The report, endorsed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as well as the
Home Office, described how "allied countries" were working to
make their immigration systems "interoperable and compatible" so
they could "systematically" share data about travellers.

The UK, US, Australia, and "some European countries" had already
made steps in this direction.

"We will build on the commitment of the Four Country Conference of the
UK, USA, Canada and Australia in April 2007 to develop projects that will
underpin a framework for systematic exchange of data," said the
report. Similar arrangements were being promoted in Europe.

The UK would also seek to share more immigration data with foreign security
agencies to help prevent criminals from coming to the UK. It would explore
an "international data exchange agreement" to provide the legal
basis for this to happen.

Many such arrangements are already being thrashed out, with Europe pushing
ahead with an arrangement to share DNA and biometric records between police
forces, a common European biometric immigration database steaming ahead,
and a wider agreement to allow more liberal sharing of data between
European police forces."


adam

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