Toronto police must determine whether collected race-based data could be used to investigate officers’ performance issues, CBC News reports. Interim Police Chief James Ramer said both the law and Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario require the data to be anonymized and not used in investigating individual officers, but the IPC clarified it has not stated a regulation “prevents a police service from using data — anonymous or otherwise — collected as part of a race-based data collection strategy to inform the supervision, training, and discipline of its police officers.”
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