WorldReach Software has been selected to undertake a project supported by the Canadian Safety and Security Program (CSSP) which will demonstrate how smartphone technologies, in conjunction with ePassports, can enhance early passenger screening.The Facilitation and Secure Identification of Low Risk Categorized and Extremist Traveller (FASTER – PrivBio) Project is led by Defence Research and Development Canada's Centre for Security Science.Along with WorldReach Software, it will also involve the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) as lead Federal Department and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), as well as Ryerson University and The University of Ottawa.FASTER – PrivBio will demonstrate how smartphone technologies can work with ePassports to improve screening of travellers to Canada, while preserving and protecting traveller privacy.The technology will demonstrate and test how applicants could self-identify themselves during their online immigration application with minimal human intervention or need to travel to a government office abroad, and how a digital client token that authenticates the client can be created to facilitate the movement of the traveller in the travel continuum.Work on FASTER – PrivBio is expected to begin in the coming weeks, once contracting is complete. Partners will then have 18 months to test and refine the "proof of concept" and technology demonstration to take a leading position in the technology that can be used for pre-screening immigration applicants and facilitating low risk travellers.
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