Use of Clearview AI by Toronto Police

Use of Clearview AI by Toronto Police
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Deployment Status	Concluded
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Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (1 October 2019, Documented, , No description) uses Record type Property:Has event End (29 February 2020, Documented, , No description)
City	Toronto
Country	Canada
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Technology Deployed	Clearview AI (Software)
Information Certainty	Documented
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Datasets Used	Clearview AI (Dataset)
Deployment Type	Criminal investigations
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managed by	Clearview AI
used by	Toronto Police Service
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Criminal investigations

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Product Deployed	Clearview AI (Software)
Institutions ⠉	Clearview AI
Datasets	Clearview AI (Dataset)
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Status	Concluded
Events	Start (1 October 2019, Documented, , No description) End (29 February 2020, Documented, , No description)
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Managed by	Clearview AI
Used by	Toronto Police Service

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City	Toronto
Country ⠉	Canada

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Description

Toronto police used Clearview AI facial recognition software to try to identify suspects, victims and witnesses in 84 criminal investigations in the three and a half months officers utilized the controversial technology before their police chief found out and ordered them to stop.

The revelations are contained in an internal police document recently obtained by CBC News through an appeal of an access to information request.

Between October 2019 and early February 2020, officers uploaded more than 2,800 photos to the U.S. company's software to look for a match among the three billion images Clearview AI extracted from public websites, such as Facebook and Instagram, to build its database.