The investigation comes after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)’s photos of travellers and licence plates were breached earlier this summer through Perceptics’ system, a licence plate reader, which the CBSA also uses. The CBSA is also doing its own review to see if Canadians’ information was breached, as well. (CBC)

Talking point: At the time of the U.S. breach, the country’s officials said Perceptics had violated government policy by transferring copies of images to its own company network without CBP authorization. The agency suspended the firm from doing business with the government in July. However, the CBSA is still using the company’s plate-reading technology; it said a Public Services review of its Canadian contract found no violation of terms. A CBSA representative also said using the equipment “does not pose systems or security vulnerabilities to the CBSA.”