Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) being used by RCMP at protests

FRT raises other important considerations as the government looks to modernize Canada’s privacy and data protection regime.

Canada’s privacy laws were designed to be technology neutral, which is positive, given the pace of technological change compared to that of legislative modernization.

However, the risks of FRT are such that, due to the inalterable nature of the information involved, specific rules may be warranted. This is already the case for other forms of biometrics collected by law enforcement such as fingerprints and DNA profiles.



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