Khoo said numerous Canadian police forces have been less cautious in their deployment of facial recognition technology.
She said such tools, while lacking predictive capabilities, are often launched without public notice and used to track and log residents as they attend protests or otherwise take part in constitutionally protected activities. Social media monitoring is another common practice, she added.
Khoo said any tech-driven law enforcement solution risks not only violating privacy and liberty rights, but further entrenching systems that have disproportionately targeted marginalized groups for years.
"While algorithmic policing technology may seem futuristic, it is inseparable from the past," she said. "The historical and ongoing patterns of systemic discrimination in Canada's criminal justice system are embedded in police data and related databases. Where this data is used to train algorithms ... the resulting algorithmic technologies will replicate, amplify, and exacerbate those discriminatory patterns."
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