Completed Access to Information Requests

Request Number:
ZA-2023-17137
December 2025
Summary:

Records from January 1, 2018, to April 23, 2024, regarding the following: all Briefing Notes related to the development, deployment and use of facial recognition technology by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA); all contracts or agreements relating to the purchase or procurement of facial recognition technology for use by the CBSA; all training manuals prepared by and for the CBSA relating to the use of facial recognition technology by the CBSA; all notes, memos, emails related to the CBSA's use of Clearview artificial intelligence facial recognition software; all documents prepared by or for the CBSA relating to the risk of use of facial recognition technology across gender and racial groups among others; all policy guidelines and manuals relating to litigation by or against the Agency regarding the use of facial recognition technology by the Agency; all policy guidelines and manuals relating to the use of facial recognition technology immigration enforcement including but not limited to refugee status revocation.

Disposition:
Disclosed in part
Pages:
1,582
Organization:
Canada Border Services Agency