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AI-Powered Gun Detection in Postal X-Ray Screening

Accountable
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)
Functional Modes
Sensing (Perceptive AI)
Human decides
Purpose
Border & Immigration
Input Dataset
About a measurement Anonymized data
Algorithm or Model
Computer Vision
Output Dataset
A recommendation or prediction Anonymized data

This system uses machine learning to automatically detect guns and gun parts in X-ray images of postal mail at the Canada Border Services Agency. It is currently in development and is intended to be used by CBSA employees to flag suspicious parcels. The system does not process personal information. AI use will be disclosed to those affected.

Sources for this disclosure

This disclosure was drafted with AI assistance.

Schema: ai@2026-05-06-beta

Government of Canada – DTPR AI Register