Smart Passport System: Discrimination Prevention and Crime Detection in Digital Passport System

Data mining is an important technology for extraction of useful data and knowledge that is being hidden in large collections of data. Discrimination comprises of treating people unfairly on the basis of their belonging to a speci�c group which leads to Crime. Automated collection of data and data mining proficiencies such as classi�cation rule mining have coated the way to make automatic decisions, like passport system, premium insurance computation etc. If the training sets of the data are biased in regards of discriminatory attributes like religion, race, caste, age, etc. discriminatory decisions may take place. For this reason, anti-discrimination techniques including discrimination discovery and prevention have been introduced in online passport system as an application. Online passport is the digital version of the paper passport to provide stronger identity authentication. Since issuing passport is a time consuming process there is a need to lessen amount of human errors and protect against manipulation of travel documents to improve security of system. The proposed system simplifies this process with online portal where the unique identification number is stored which corresponds to the information of the person. This system uses web application technology that uses wireless communication for identification purposes which improves the quality of data and helps to reduce Crime.