The use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement without the proper legal safeguards in place threatens privacy, free speech, and peaceful assembly rights protected under the Charter, a technology and human rights lawyer says. Testifying before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics on March 21, Cythnia Khoo said the use of facial recognition by police agencies, without strict legal safeguards in place, will likely cause damage to Canadians’ fundamental freedoms. “Even if all bias were removed from facial recognition, the technology will still pose an equal or even greater threat to our constitutional and human rights,” said Khoo, who is also a research fellow with the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. “Facial recognition used to identify people in public violates privacy preserved through anonymity in daily life and relies on collecting particularly sensitive biometric data. This would likely induce chilling effects on freedom of expression, such …
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