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Payments Canada is responsible for ensuring that significant rule changes follow an established public consultation process to seek input from key user groups. In 2010, it facilitated industry-wide development with frameworks for contactless debit payments. Payments Canada is also tasked with leading the Canadian effort to adopt ISO 20022. [13]
NEXUS is a joint Canada-United States program operated by the Canada Border Services Agency and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It is designed to expedite travel cross the US-Canada border and makes use of biometric authentication technology, specifically "iris recognition biometric technology". [ 6 ]
Applicants for a visitor visa, a study permit, a work permit or permanent residence after the relevant dates must submit their biometrics at one of the VACs if outside Canada and the United States, at one of the Application Support Centres (ASCs) staffed by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) if in the United States ...
The typical work-flow of an automatic border control system (eGate) [1] Automated border control systems (ABC) or eGates are automated self-service barriers which use data stored in a chip in biometric passports along with a photo or fingerprint taken at the time of entering the eGates to verify the passport holder's identity.
A Canadian passport (French: passeport canadien) is the passport issued to citizens of Canada.It enables the bearer to enter or re-enter Canada freely; travel to and from other countries in accordance with visa requirements; facilitates the process of securing assistance from Canadian consular officials abroad, if necessary; and requests protection for the bearer while abroad.
Biometrics have been considered also instrumental to the development of state authority [37] (to put it in Foucauldian terms, of discipline and biopower [38]). By turning the human subject into a collection of biometric parameters, biometrics would dehumanize the person, [39] infringe bodily integrity, and, ultimately, offend human dignity. [40]
This biometric symbol is usually printed on the cover of biometric (ICAO compliant) passports. A biometric passport (also known as an electronic passport, e-passport or a digital passport) is a passport that has an embedded electronic microprocessor chip, which contains biometric information that can be used to authenticate the identity of the passport holder.
It is believed to be the first man-made device which can capture 2 or more distinct biometrics from the same region of pixel stacks (forming a surface) at the same instant, allowing for the data to form a third biometric, which is a more complex pattern inclusive as to how the data aligns.