Canada’s national police force, which was heavily criticized for using Clearview AI software, has signed contracts to use multiple facial recognition tools.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) revealed these details in documents recently tabled in Parliament, though it says it has stopped using facial recognition technology pending an internal review sparked by public outcry in 2020.The RCMP has been open about wanting to resume using facial recognition, despite privacy concerns, but it has divulged little about the programs at its disposal.
“It’s not a simple matter to determine which police forces are using what surveillance tools and that’s a fundamental flaw of accountability that we keep seeing in policing,” said Brenda McPhail, director of the privacy, technology and surveillance program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
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