Privacy Commissioners find police use of Clearview AI violated privacy rights of Canadians
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An RCMP officer browses a smartphone during a reception in honour of the Canadian Police Mission in Ukraine, in Kyiv, 5 March 2020, Yevhen Kotenko/ Ukrinform/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Clearview AI’s indiscriminate facial recognition technology is an “affront” to Canadians’ privacy rights, says joint investigation report.
This statement was originally published on openmedia.org on 3 February 2021.
Clearview AI’s indiscriminate facial recognition technology an “affront” to Canadians’ privacy rights, says joint investigation report
Today findings were released from the joint investigation into Clearview AI by the federal, Quebec, Alberta, and BC, Privacy Commissioners. The joint report confirms what the OpenMedia community has long expected: The indiscriminate collection of sensitive facial data by Clear