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(e)

Computer Security

Automated systems have been developed to process applications, which include the calculation of points, production of applicants' profiles, data analysis and production of machine readable passports. These systems have different levels of security safeguards, e.g. the use of individual passwords to guard against unauthorised access to data. There are also audit reports of various kinds for control purposes.

Officers of the Independent Commission Against Corruption have been very much involved in designing the system specifications, e.g. data security, data verification, transaction reports about record changes, and suppressing the identity of applicants in computer reports wherever possible.

Procedural Safeguards

The following major safeguards have also been built into the operational procedures, which are subject to periodic reviews jointly conducted by the Immigration Department and the Independent Commission Against Corruption to ensure that they remain relevant, efficient and effective -

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(ii)

the procedures have been designed to ensure that applications are handled by different officers at each stage of the selection process and work is checked at each stage by a more senior officer;

interviews for the purpose of verifying identity and documentary evidence are conducted by Senior Immigration Officers. The allotment of cases is done on the day of interview in a random manner by a Chief Immigration Officer;

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