In 2016, the Canadian federal government quietly tested facial recognition technology on millions of unsuspecting travellers at YYZ in an effort to identify potential deportees. The initiative lasted six months, and was meant to identify people the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) suspected might try to enter the country using fake identification. 31 cameras captured images of travellers’ faces walking through the international arrivals border control area at YYZ’s Terminal 3. Whenever the system returned a match against a 5,000-person list of previously deported people, a border officer would review the data and pass the traveller’s information along to an officer on the terminal floor, who would track the traveller down and pull them into a “secondary inspection.” The Globe and Mail obtained this information in a document through a freedom of information request, and is presented in the article.
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