Canadian faces to be precise. Just recently announced by the Canadian passport office are plans to start building a computerized database storing the faces of every Canadian. The system will scan the faces of those crossing Canadian borders while checking if they match the faces of those on a ‘wanted’ list.

A regional trial will be conducted in spring 2007 with the aim of making the tool available to passport offices across the country by fall 2007.

Read more here.

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