New privacy-protecting RCMP unit lacking crucial funding and staff, documents show
An RCMP initiative to ensure that the force uses intrusive technological tools in accordance with Canada’s privacy laws is dealing with a lack of funding and staff, says an internal report obtained by The Globe and Mail.
Dozens of police forces in Canada had also utilized that same software, which is known as Clearview AI, between 2019 and 2020. But this was largely curtailed once media reports exposed the software’s use. Subsequent reviews by privacy officials determined that the software is illegal under Canada’s privacy laws and that rank-and-file police officers had gotten this gear with inadequate oversight.
The crime-fighting capabilities of these technologies can come at a cost to collective privacy, so the NTOP unit plans to give green-light, amber-light or red-light recommendations about these tools to the RCMP’s 20,000-officer force. “The intensive NTOP assessment process will inevitably slow down the procurement and deployment of operational capabilities,” reads the risk assessment. “This will undoubtedly create concerns and barriers.”
In September, the Mounties submitted a document to Parliament saying that the police force has stopped using some kinds of software that had been employed for years to advance child-exploitation and human-trafficking investigations.
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