Facial Recognition at a Crossroads: Transformation at our Borders & Beyond

The ‘capture subject’ refers to an individual that the facial recognition system is Facial capture subject attempting to compare to a facial reference sample in order to determine whether [traveller] said individual is the source of the reference sample. [...] Legislation should specify that biometric data is sensitive and requires additional protection, prohibit the use of facial recognition systems in the absence of explicit lawful authority, and entrust the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada with general oversight of recognition systems. [...] Border officials will photograph travellers wishing to rely on their KTDI profile to navigate a border crossing, access the ICAO compliant facial image stored on the traveller’s phone, and compare the two using a facial recognition system as a means of confirming that the passport and other information stored on the mobile device’s KTDI profile is associated with the traveller in question.15 Austr. [...] | FACIAL RECOGNITION: TRANSFORMATION AT OUR BORDERS | Page 11 of 163 The enrollment process: Generating a quality reference dataset The reference dataset will form the basis of future comparisons, and the quality of the images included in this dataset as well as their general fitness for biometric comparison continues to impact the overall accuracy of a facial recognition system despite significan. [...] Facial templates are a numerical representation of key facial features, and form the basis of automated facial comparison.44 Facial recognition systems operate on the basis of facial templates, not facial images.