CBSA to Use Facial Recognition App for People Facing Deportation: Documents

CBSA to Use Facial Recognition App for People Facing Deportation: Documents
A Canada Border Services Agency sign is seen in Calgary in a file photo. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—The Canada Border Services Agency plans to implement an app that uses facial recognition technology to keep track of people who have been ordered to be deported from the country.

The mobile reporting app would use biometrics to confirm a person’s identity and record their location data when they use the app to check in. Documents obtained through access-to-information indicate that the CBSA has proposed such an app as far back as 2021.