Canada to seek biometrics on every visitor - UPI.com: "OTTAWA, June 10 (UPI) -- Canada is moving to collect such biometric data as photos and fingerprints on every visitor from every country by 2013, the incoming spy chief said.
Speaking to the Parliamentary Immigration Committee, Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Richard Fadden said the program will be phased in between 2011 and 2013, the Globe and Mail reported.
'The intention is to capture everybody,' Fadden said Tuesday. 'The idea is to increase our capacity to know who is in Canada at a particular point of time.'
Fadden is set to become chief of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service June 27.
The technology was tested during a field trial from October 2006 to April 2007 in two undisclosed overseas visa offices and found to be reliable and effective at preventing fraud, the Globe reported.
Documents seen by Sun Media show the plan is to require fingerprints from 15 percent of prospective temporary residents by late 2011, increasing to 50 percent in 2012 and 100 percent by 2013"
