Use of NeoFace by Edmonton police force

Use of NeoFace by Edmonton police force
Excluded from graph
Deployment Status	Ongoing
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (1 February 2022, Documented, , No description)
City	Edmonton
Country	Canada
Involved Entities
Keywords
Technology Deployed	Neo Face Reveal
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1
Datasets Used	Unknown Dataset 0081
Deployment Type	Surveillance
runs search software
managed by	Edmonton Police Service, NEC
used by	Edmonton Police Service
Potentially used by
Information Certainty	0
Summary	0

Graph View ↗︎

Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

Summary
0

• Details

Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	NeoFace Reveal
Institutions ⠉	NEC
Datasets	Unknown Dataset 0081
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events	Start (1 February 2022, Documented, , No description)
Start Date
End Date

Users:

Involved Entities
Managed by	NEC Edmonton Police Service
Used by	Edmonton Police Service

Location:

City	Edmonton
Country ⠉	Canada

Loading map...

{"format":"leaflet","minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"limit":50,"offset":0,"link":"all","sort":[""],"order":[],"headers":"show","mainlabel":"","intro":"","outro":"","searchlabel":"... further results","default":"","import-annotation":false,"width":"auto","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":5,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":false,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","showtitle":true,"hidenamespace":false,"template":"","userparam":"","activeicon":"","pagelabel":false,"ajaxcoordproperty":"","ajaxquery":"","locations":[{"text":"\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/wiki/index.php/Use_of_NeoFace_by_Edmonton_police_force\" title=\"Use of NeoFace by Edmonton police force\"\u003EUse of NeoFace by Edmonton police force\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/b\u003E","title":"Use of NeoFace by Edmonton police force","link":"","lat":53.53541,"lon":-113.508,"icon":""}],"imageLayers":[]}

Description

The EPS said on Feb. 1 that it has procured NeoFace Reveal, which is facial recognition software produced by NEC Corporation of America. It has been used by the Calgary Police Service since 2014.

Episode 165 of Speaking Municipally, Taproot’s civic affairs podcast, raised some questions about police use of the technology. Co-host Mack Male cited a 2021 report from the Public Good Initiative at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, noting the risk that such technologies could amplify inequities within the system 1

This page uses the following references:

• Security_Vision_Wiki_References#_SCITEb89ea6c6f47b6d18b9d54ff4a7fc24ef