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VICTORIA Information Commissioner Michael McEvoy called out the New Democrats on Wednesday for their secretive treatment of InBC, the new Crown corporation managing $500 million worth of public investments in high risk venture capital.
The enabling legislation for the InBC Investment Corporation does not make it subject to B.C.’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, or FIPPA.
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Nor did Ravi Kahlon, the cabinet minister responsible for InBC, commit to the FIPPA umbrella when pressed by the B.C. Liberals during debate on the legislation on Tuesday.
Investigators say Clearview AI Had No Consent for Images Given to Police
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Have you been in a police lineup recently?
Well, actually, that is a possibility thanks to powerful facial recognition technology.
Through Clearview AI’s facial recognition tool your photograph may have turned up during an investigation into a crime.
That was highlighted in an investigation by the Privacy Commissioners of BC, Canada, Alberta, and Quebec into whether Clearview AI violated personal privacy laws in Canada.
They found that Clearview’s collection of billions of images of people from across the Internet represented mass surveillance and was a clear violation of the privacy rights of Canadians.