Furthering our work in uncovering what the Canada Border Companies Company (“CBSA”) is doing, I’m sharing the draft Algorithmic Impression Evaluation we’ve got for his or her Safety Screening Automation (“SSA”) challenge.
Primarily based on a latest data know-how report (disclosing initiatives with a finances of greater than $1 Million {dollars}), the next is summarized about this automation challenge:
Safety Screening Automation
The safety screening system will facilitate data sharing with screening companions and improve safety screening by means of a brand new case administration system, built-in intelligence methods and instruments, enterprise intelligence and efficiency monitoring capabilities.
We additionally study from this doc that completion is tabled for 2026.
From CBSA’s 2024-2025 annual report, we additionally see there are 5 references to the SSA challenge suggesting it’s a main departmental precedence.
The small print are nonetheless fairly mum concerning the challenge stating solely, their objective to:
Improve immigration safety screening processes to determine inadmissible individuals searching for
entry into Canada, together with efforts beneath the Safety Screening Automation challenge
Algorithmic Impression Evaluation
A lot of this doc (which I obtained final yr in 2023) is redacted. We have no idea when the draft was dated.
The challenge description (Part 9 at web page 1) describes that it’ll invovled modernized case administration system, an automatic triage perform, built-in intelligence methods, and instruments, enterprise intellignce, and efficiency moniotring capabilities. In brief, this appears rather more superior then a Chinook sort IRCC mannequin.
It additionally re-affirms the usage of htese instruments to route screening for the simpler instances and allot extra time for overview for advanced instances – serving to hte immigration consumer. The doc reinforces once more that no automated determination is made with out human oversight. The precise rationalization for “Human-in-the-loop for choices” is redacted.
I ponder how automation of straight ahead instances for safety shall be obtained by the general public in gentle of latest information round terrorist plots by people who apparently weren’t caught by our safety screening equipment. It additionally appears considerably contradictory that CBSA seems (once more: I acknowledge I’ve obtained this data solely by means of rumour) involved about IRCC’s eligiblity screening processes being automated, whereas pursuing safety screening automation then again.
One other query I’ve is whether or not and the way facial recognition know-how (“FRT”) being carried out. We all know that FRT is carried out right into a ReportIn software being developed to facilitate the removals course of for inadmissible people topic to removing. Presumably, along with the apparent analytics from the applying supplies a person might need and require processing, there’s additionally a photograph as a part of each software and biometric assortment. I ponder if there’s any function being performed in analyzing this as a part of a front-end screening.
Anyhow, I go away the doc up for everybody’s overview. Completely satisfied to have additional dialogue about this:
For many who can not see the above doc, you possibly can entry the doc through Google Drive hyperlink right here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OBBoWuYWysvdyD1b2dG4B6E3m7Z0hylq/view?usp=drive_link