OTTAWA — When the Ontario Provincial Police began using Palantir Technologies’s controversial Gotham database product in 2015, it was an “operational issue”…
pointed out the huge number of police dealings where the carding regulation doesn’t apply. Those include traffic stops and enforcement of provincial laws on liquor and trespassing; and “observation checks,” which are when police record seeing someone without stopping them to request their papers. None of those needs to be reported.Article content
“A reason for the sharp decline in the numbers of what are commonly referred to as street checks post-regulation is that the numbers outlined pre-regulation, which often were in the thousands, included both regulated and non-regulated interactions grouped together under the street checks module,” he wrote in his report.
Police weren’t adequately trained on the regulation or the reason for it, Tulloch found, and the rules didn’t meaningfully restrict the use of the information once it was collected. McPhail said that lack of information erodes public faith in policing. “We have had a series of revelations about different policing bodies across Canada, using different surveillance tools, where the way we find out is from a media story, or an intrepid reporter gets a lead and follows it up, rather than from the force. So these products are being considered, procured and used mostly in secret,” she said.
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