Uncovering The State’s Surveillance Capabilities

Federal Court

Immigration and citizenship --- Citizenship — Miscellaneous Passports — Citizen was disabled lawyer who applied to renew his passport — Routine verification by facial recognition software indicated same photograph appeared in another passport issued under another name F — Citizen was advised that he was under investigation by Passport Investigations Division (PID) of Program Integrity Branch of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada — Citizen denied any knowledge of other passport and noted he was at risk of identity theft due to need for caregivers who had access to everything in his home — PID refused issuance of passport and imposed five-year period of refusal of passport services based on citizen obtaining another passport in assumed identity and failing to provide all material required on passport application — Citizen brought application for judicial review — Application granted; matter remitted for redetermination

February 10, 2017

7 pages.

Federal Court

Wong v Canada (Attorney General).pdf

Wong v Canada (Attorney General).pdf