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THREAD: Here are the ABC’s (algorithms, big tech and cops) of predictive policing and surveillance. Today’s #ThisMatters #podcast explores what we need to know and what it means for your rights. @rajumudhar (1/7) thestar.com/podcasts/thism…
As an example, in 2019, The Star reported Toronto police acquired controversial surveillance technology that sweeps up data on bystanders’ cellphones as well as that of criminal targets (2/7) thestar.com/news/gta/2019/…
Use of the technology was not new. @katecallen and @wendygillis reported Toronto police had been using facial recognition technology for more than a year (3/7) thestar.com/news/gta/2019/…
OPP also acquired “Stingray” cellphone surveillance technology, according to documents obtained by the Star. But a spokesperson says the force switched to equipment “not capable” of intercepting private communications in 2017. (4/7) thestar.com/news/canada/20…
The growing use of algorithmic policing technology in Canada poses a fast-approaching threat to equality rights that our justice system is ill-equipped to confront, #opinion contributor Kate Robertson writes. (5/7) thestar.com/opinion/contri…
Canada has yet to develop a regulatory regime to deal with issues of discrimination and accountability to which AI systems are prone, prompting calls for regulation. (6/7) thestar.com/business/2019/…
But we can't avoid that the public safety regime of tomorrow is all about data. “This is the future of policing,” Christopher Schneider, an associate professor of sociology at Brandon University, said in 2016. (7/7) thestar.com/news/gta/2016/…

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