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Last month, CBC released a report divulging new details about the Toronto Police Service’s use of Clearview AI’s controversial surveillance technology. The findings confirmed that Toronto police had employed facial recognition software to identify both suspects and victims in several dozen police investigations.
These findings built on news from February 2020 that initially revealed several officers had used a trial version of the software, despite their denial of its use a month prior.
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