I can tell you that Argentina does that kind of profiling but without any such app available to my knowledge. They 'get you' at random times or times of large transactions such as buying a house.
Argentina's style would be to provide a webapp where you enter your national ID (no password) and they tell you your status. Cynically I'd say they'd add a couple of points when you do that. On Nov 21, 2012 7:16 AM, "Fabrizio Giudici" <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > I have a question for you, to put some news related to my country in an > international context. > > The italian Reveune Office has been working for some time on policies to > contrast tax evasion. As part of these initiatives, they have prepared a > mathematical model which searches for gross inconsistencies between the > "life style" (= some kind of expenses) and tax declarations. They will use > this model as a first filter to search for cases to be submitted under a > deeper investigation. As part of their transparency policy they have > released an application which asks to citizens the same data used in the > model and then applies the model, telling users whether they fall in the > "regular" cases or those which are going to be investigated. > > The application is a Java 7 web start application (surprise?). This makes > a lot of sense since people are concerned about their privacy: the Revenue > Office guarantees that no part of the collected data is sent to their > servers. Should they have a web application, this statement could be never > verified (*). With a standalone application, it *could* be possible to > verify it. The strange thing is that the source code of the application is > not released. I bet some people will decompile the jars (unless they are > obfuscated) and tell us how things are, but IMO the Revenue Office has > demonstrated a blatant lack of open source (**) culture, right in a place > where it would be useful. > > As I'd like to blog about that, I'd like to know whether there are similar > cases in other countries. > > Thanks. > > > (*) My assertion is not entirely true. The application could have been > done in JavaScript and entirely run within its web page, but for non > technical people I think that there would be a different perception. > (**) "Open source" intended as the freedom to change the code and > re-release it is actually an overkill requirement for the case: it would > suffice that the code is available, even though strictly copyrighted. But > let me use anyway the term open source for simplicity. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/**blog <http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog> - > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
