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AI used by police cannot tell Black people apart and other reasons Canada’s AI laws need urgent attention (theconversation.com)

submitted 10 months ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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In Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and other policing agencies, including the Toronto Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police, have already been called out by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada for using the Clearview AI technology to conduct mass surveillance.

Clearview AI has a database of over three billion images that were collected without consent by scraping the internet. Clearview AI matches faces from the database against other footage. This violates Canadian privacy laws. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has critiqued RCMP use of this technology and the Toronto Police Services suspended use of that product.

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[–] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm an AI enthusiast, but id be the first to say that whoever greenlights a system with such obvious bias issues for something so important should be sacked. Although, before AI, cops just use bullshit mindreading tactics that basically boil down to "harass anyone who doesn't act within your cultural and neurotypical norms" while encouraging them to influence their own perceptions with any personal or local biases. I.E. Cops are borked and need reshaping.