Canada’s federal institutions are collecting, using, and disclosing people’s facial information. They are also increasingly relying on technology that uses this information, in combination with automated decision-making processes, to uniquely identify individuals. This is happening in Canada today, without adequate direction and protection from the Privacy Act. The use of this technology raises significant privacy and security concerns for people in Canada, including the potential to enable mass surveillance and discrimination enabled by systems trained on datasets already imbued with prejudice and bias.
Authors: Yuan Stevens & Sonja Solomun | February 2021
