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The five-year project to electronically secure the borders involves immigration, the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency. Federal immigration spokesman Karen Shadd said under the program, applicants will have to provide fingerprints and a photograph as part of their digital visa application.

That's about all I am going to learn for now about the grizzled-looking man before me -- and getting that out of him takes a bit of work as he answers most questions with, "Who wants to know?"

So it's with little surprise that I find Ernie's not so sure about a plan by the provincial government to issue identification cards to people like him, whose weather-beaten backpacks hold most of their worldly possessions and home is a mat at one of the city's shelters.

The military has collected hundreds of samples of such biometric information in Afghanistan, mainly from those detained by troops or from individuals who have acted suspiciously.

But in an April 2010 directive issued by then Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk, the military was ordered to expand such capabilities beyond those being detained in Afghanistan.

The multi-national system is active in Caricom countries, a collection of nations that began sharing border control responsibilities in 1972.

The current system, in which customs and/or immigration officials manually process passengers at borders, calls for significant resources and infrastructure and is generally time consuming for passengers and border authorities. Passengers may be interviewed or examined, and their baggage and travel documentation is inspected.

Public opinion is that this current system of processing travelers tends to be cumbersome and inefficient, and it further supports the growing need to accurately identify travelers in a more cost effective, efficient manner for security and border control purposes.

As well as classifying the population by gender, religion, occupation and education, the purpose of this latest census was also to photograph and fingerprint all adults over the age of 15 years to create a biometric database of the population. This database will be used to issue new national identity cards and is welcomed by many poor families, who believe these documents will improve the ease and reliability of receiving state benefits.

The new biometric residence permits, used with a passport, give the holder free travel without a visa, throughout the Schengen area.

The credit card size documents contain a biometric chip with data that will be stored for five years by the canton that issues it.

Critics raise alarm on China’s domestic surveillance practices

Leading Chinese biometrics and security camera providers helped to craft standards for ethnicity-based identification, according to an IPVM report detailing the use of ethnicity tracking by Chinese public surveillance systems that use face biometrics.

IPVM specifically identifies surveillance camera manufacturers Unikview, Dahua, and Hikvision as co-authors of China’s controversial GA/T1400.3-2017 public surveillance standards, an especially worrisome development given China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority. Within this biometric standard, IPVM found an ethnicity identifier code that includes skin color and other distinguishing features.

As the Police of Armenia told Armenpress, in case of leaving for abroad citizens can also obtain a passport with biometric data as a travel document.

The identification card will contain an electronic database, individual cryptographic keys, electronic digital signature and certificates for identity.

Facial recognition is being implemented as an option for foreigners seeking to register for a business license in China. According to China Daily, the streamlined process using mobile face ID scan went into effect on January 18 2024, and has reduced the time required for registration from several months to under ten minutes.

The change eliminates the need for foreign nationals applying to register foreign-funded enterprises in Beijing to supply proof of identity issued by their home country or region, or to be physically present for registration.

The devices, which electronically track how many hours each student has spent driving, represent an effort to strengthen enforcement of the often flouted 55-hour requirement.

The Interior Justice Minister Wednesday said that there is not enough money to implement the new voting system.

A full-scale implementation of the system has been debated since it was first presented in Cartagena, Bolivar in October of 2010.

Public sector employees in Kuwait will start signing in and out electronically from October 1 to ensure their punctuality and compliance with official working hours.

The Kuwait Civil Service Commission (CSC) had issued an edict making biometric finger-scanning compulsory in the public sector, according to Al Anba newspaper.

State ministries, government departments and public institutions have finalised all preparations to implement the biometric procedures, urging their personnel to comply.

The EU General Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 13/12/2004 adopted a regulation mandating the inclusion of both facial image and fingerprints in future passports and travel documents issued by EU Member States.

Shambhu Sharma had arrived with nothing that could prove who he was. He had no passport, no ration book, no voter identity card or anything similar. Four years ago, he said, he was pick-pocketed and everything was taken. As India goes about trying to provide a unique identity number to each of its citizens, it is people like Mr Sharma who provide officials with some of the most testing challenges. The government's scheme accepts 17 separate forms of photo identification and 32 as proof of address, but sometimes there are individuals such as Mr Sharma who genuinely have nothing.

In September, officials from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), armed with fingerprinting machines, iris scanners and cameras hooked to laptops, will fan out across the towns and villages of southern Andhra Pradesh state in the first phase of the project whose aim is to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID) number.

CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd, a special purpose vehicle under Meity, on Friday restarted Aadhaar registration and other related works which it plans to expand across the country next week.

CSC SPV has signed an agreement with Aadhaar custodian, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), to roll out Aadhaar enrolment, make corrections and changes in the profile of the unique ID holders within its premises.