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Clearview AI engaged in illegal mass surveillance: privacy commissioners

News | 02/03/2021 6:43 pm EST
Daniel Therrien, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, appears before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics on Nov. 1, 2018. /Photo by Andrew Meade

The facial recognition technology company used by dozens of police departments across the country engaged in illegal mass surveillance before it withdrew itself from the Canadian market over the summer, the federal privacy watchdog declared in a report released Wednesday. 

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