6 Apr 2018

Privacy Commissioner wants details of immigration data analysis

From Morning Report, 6:13 am on 6 April 2018

The Privacy Commissioner says he wants to know more about a pilot scheme Immigration New Zealand's been running for 18 months to help it prioritise which people it should take action against. It's been modelling data - including the age, gender and ethnicity - of overstayers to identify which groups are more likely to run up hospital costs or commit crime. The Privacy Commissioner John Edwards tells our reporter Sarah Robson his office is currently researching the use of predictive risk modelling across the public sector - but that they did not know about this pilot.