Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Is someone watching you? Facial recognition tech is here and Canada offers little privacy protection

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par Neil McArthur, Director, Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of Manitoba

Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

In the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deployed a technology known as Mobile Fortify, which uses facial recognition on officers’ cellphones to “quickly verify subjects of interest during operations.”

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