Canada’s Budget Funds Traveller Biometrics Strategy and Facial Images for eTA Applicants
Canada’s 2026 federal budget proposes C$4.3 million over four years for Transport Canada to develop a Traveller Biometrics Strategy, along with C$90 million to…
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IDENTOS Launches PolicyArc for Runtime Access Control and AI Agents
IDENTOS has made PolicyArc generally available, giving enterprises a central service for defining, enforcing and auditing access policies across connected…
Canada Opens Privacy Investigation Into IDScan.net Breach
Canada’s privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into the IDScan.net data breach, examining the company’s security safeguards and its notifications to…
Google Brings Account-Level Age Assurance to Canada
Google is beginning a gradual Canadian rollout of machine-learning age assurance that estimates whether an account holder is under 18. Accounts classified as…
Toronto Pearson Tests Four Biometric E-Gates With Air Canada
Toronto Pearson International Airport is piloting four facial-verification e-gates with Air Canada, extending biometric processing to domestic and US-bound…
BC Appeal Court Upholds Refusal to Certify Mall Biometric Class Action
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by shoppers who say Cadillac Fairview collected their biometric data through cameras built into…
Canada Opens Qualification Stage for Immigration Biometrics Front End
Canada has opened a supplier-qualification process for the modernization of the front end of the Canadian Immigration Biometric Identification System, the…
Ottawa Police Approved to Join Shared Facial Recognition Network
The Ottawa Police Service has been approved to move ahead with the first phase of a facial recognition program, joining a shared network with three other…
Canada’s Bill C-34 Would Set a Minimum Social Media Age of 16 With Age Assurance
Canada has introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, proposed legislation that would create a new digital-safety framework and set a minimum age of 16…
Fime Becomes First Quebec-Based DIACC-Accredited Auditor for Canada’s Trust Framework
Fime has been accredited by the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada as an official auditor under the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework, becoming the…