Facial Recognition
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How a B.C. filmmaker’s honeymoon photos helped train controversial facial recognition techBrett Gaylor's photos were scraped from a picture-sharing website and incorporated into huge databases used by companies like Clearview AI, as well as the Chinese government.NewsJun 11
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New privacy bill won’t fix Canada’s longstanding issues, critics sayA new bill before Parliament won't fix Canada's many longstanding problems when it comes to protecting privacy, critics say.PoliticsMay 20
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Who ‘owns’ our faces and how will facial recognition be used?In the age of Big Tech, we need to grapple with who has access to our faces, says Wendy Wong of the University of Toronto.CommentaryJan 23
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Cadillac Fairview covertly collected images of 5M shoppers across Canada: privacy commissionersAccording to the report, the company embedded small, inconspicuous cameras inside mall directories at 12 Canadian malls which collected images of customers without their knowledge or consent.ConsumerOct 29, 2020
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Group urges feds to ban facial recognition tools citing a violation of Canadian rightsDozens of groups and individuals working to protect privacy, human rights and civil liberties want the Trudeau government to ban the use of facial-recognition surveillance by federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.CanadaJul 8, 2020
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Clearview AI to stop facial recognition services in Canada, privacy watchdog saysClearview AI's technology allows for the collection of huge numbers of images from various sources that can help police forces, financial institutions and other clients identify people.CanadaJul 6, 2020
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Facial recognition company vows review after software leads to wrongful arrest in U.S.Robert Williams, who is Black, spent over a day in Detroit police custody in January after Rank One's face recognition software connected his driver's license photo to surveillance video of someone shoplifting.TechJun 25, 2020
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London police Clearview AI review reveals 7 officers accessed the facial recognition technologyChief Stephen Williams revealed that seven officers accessed the software.CanadaMay 21, 2020
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Coronavirus: Chinese facial recognition firm says they can ID people wearing face masksBeijing-based firm Hanwang Technology Ltd. said a team of 20 staff used core technology developed over the past 10 years, a sample database of about 6 million unmasked faces and a much smaller database of masked faces to develop the technology.TechMar 9, 2020
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Clearview AI: When can companies use facial recognition data?Police agencies across Canada, including the RCMP, have since admitted to its members using a controversial facial recognition software from Clearview AI.TechMar 6, 2020
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