Use of NeoFace Reveal by Calgary Police Service

Use of NeoFace Reveal by Calgary Police Service
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (1 January 2014, Documented, , No description)
City	Calgary
Country	Canada
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Technology Deployed	NeoFace Reveal
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1, 2
Datasets Used	Unknown Dataset 0082, Mugshot Database Calgary
Deployment Type	Analytics, Facial Recognition (Non-descript)
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managed by	NEC, Calgary Police Services
used by	Calgary Police Services
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

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Product Deployed	NeoFace Reveal
Institutions ⠉	NEC
Datasets	Unknown Dataset 0082 Mugshot Database Calgary
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Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events	Start (1 January 2014, Documented, , No description)
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Involved Entities
Managed by	NEC Calgary Police Services
Used by	Calgary Police Services

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City	Calgary
Country ⠉	Canada

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Calgary police were the first police agency in Canada to utilize facial recognition technology in 2014.

MacDonald said a year of research, review and evaluation of facial recognition tools resulted in a contract with the NEC Corporation of America to use the NeoFace Reveal software.

Article content “There’s a demand for public safety that pushes the use of more AI stuff, but I think back then, in 2014, there was not enough public knowledge about facial recognition,” said MacDonald. “It was still a novelty.”

He said there are still some misconceptions from the public about the use of facial recognition software, but if it is used responsibly and ethically it has merit to save time and resources.

Calgary police have since upgraded to the NeoFace Reveal 2.0. 1