We will be consulting police, civil society and other stakeholders on the content of the guidance before it is finalized. Today, my office, along with our provincial and territorial counterparts, are launching a consultation on draft guidance to help police ensure any use of facial recognition technology complies with current laws and minimizes privacy risks. While certain intrusions on this right can be justified in specific circumstances, individuals do not forego their right to privacy merely by living and moving in the world in ways that may reveal their face to others, or that may enable their image to be captured on camera. Police use of facial recognition technologies, with its power to disrupt anonymity in public spaces, and enable mass surveillance, raises the potential for serious privacy harms unless appropriate privacy protections are in place.Ĭanadians must be free to participate in the increasingly digital, day-to-day activities of a modern society without the risk of their activities being routinely identified, tracked and monitored. Notably, we found there were serious and systemic gaps in the RCMP’s policies and systems to track, identify, assess and control novel collections of personal information through new technologies. Our investigation highlighted other concerns. In our view, a government institution simply cannot collect personal information from a third party agent if that third party’s collection was unlawful in the first place. Now, our most recent investigation has concluded that the RCMP contravened the federal public sector law, the Privacy Act, when it collected information from Clearview. found Clearview’s practices to be mass surveillance and illegal under federal and provincial private sector privacy laws. Clients of the service, such as the RCMP, could match photographs of people against the photographs in the databank.īack in February, we and our counterparts in Quebec, Alberta and B.C. Our report of findings tells the second part of a story that began earlier this year, when we released the results of an investigation into the practices of Clearview itself.Ĭlearview AI created a databank of more than three billion images scraped from internet websites without users’ consent. The Special Report on my office’s investigation into the RCMP’s use of Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology has been tabled in Parliament. Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien issued the following statement at a media teleconference.
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