Vancouver police amending facial recognition guidelines

According to FindBiometrics, the Vancouver Police Department began drafting new policies on the use of facial recognition by its units. The amended guidelines come in response to findings by Canadian privacy commissioners regarding unlawful biometric data collection by Clearview AI, whose technologies were used by Canadian police. The department hopes to have the policies rewritten by the end of 2021 and committed to a ban on the use of facial recognition until the policies are finalized.