Use of Facial Recognition Technology by Cadillac Fairview

Use of Facial Recognition Technology by Cadillac Fairview
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City	Calgary, Richmond, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Hamilton, Markham, Montreal, Laval
Country	Canada
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Information Certainty	Documented
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Deployment Type	Biometric Cameras, Analytics
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used by	Cadilac Fairview
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Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

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Used by	Cadillac Fairview

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City	Vancouver Montreal Toronto Calgary Richmond Winnipeg Hamilton Markham Laval
Country ⠉	Canada Canada Canada Canada Canada Canada Canada Canada Canada

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The real estate company behind some of Canada's most popular shopping centres embedded cameras inside its digital information kiosks at 12 shopping malls in major Canadian cities to collect millions of images — and used facial recognition technology without customers' knowledge or consent — according to a new investigation by the federal, Alberta and B.C. privacy commissioners.

According to the report, the technology Cadillac Fairview used — known as "anonymous video analytics" or AVA— took temporary digital images of the faces of individuals within the field of view of the camera in the directory.

It then used facial recognition software to convert those images into biometric numerical representations of individual faces, about five million images in total.

That sensitive personal information could be used to identify individuals based on their unique facial features, said the commissioners.

Cadillac Fairview is suspending its use of facial recognition technology at the Chinook Centre and Market Mall shopping centres in Calgary.

Facial recognition software was discovered being used in a Calgary mall last month and investigations are now underway.

In an emailed statement sent to Global News on Sunday, Cadillac Fairview Corporation’s director of media relations confirmed that the Federal Privacy Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta are investigating after media coverage of cameras in their shopping centre directories.