Sources & verification notes

Every source cited on this site, and the ones we looked for but could not verify.

Sources cited
SourcePublisherCited on site
Police use of Facial Recognition Technology in Canada and the way forward (special report on the RCMP and Clearview AI)Office of the Privacy Commissioner of CanadaYes
RCMP's use of Clearview AI's facial recognition technology violated Privacy Act, investigation concludesOffice of the Privacy Commissioner of CanadaYes
PIPEDA Findings #2021-001: Joint investigation of Clearview AI, Inc.Federal, Quebec, Alberta and BC privacy authoritiesYes
Clearview AI's unlawful practices represented mass surveillance of Canadians, commissioners sayOffice of the Privacy Commissioner of CanadaYes
Privacy guidance on facial recognition for police agenciesFederal, provincial and territorial privacy authoritiesYes
Use of Artificial Intelligence Technology (Board policy)Toronto Police Service BoardYes
Approval of high-risk technologies under the Toronto Police Services Board's Policy on the use of artificial intelligence technologyOntario Human Rights CommissionYes
Toronto police used Clearview AI facial recognition software in 84 investigationsCBC NewsYes
How Mounties in Alberta and B.C. are using AI to write reportsCBC News / The Canadian Press, 6 June 2026Yes
Canadian police partner with AI in arms race against criminals. But at what cost?Blue Line, from The Canadian Press, 2 April 2025Yes
Advancing Law Enforcement: The Lethbridge Police Service's Data-driven Approach To Crime ReductionBlue Line (2025)Yes
To Surveil and Predict: A Human Rights Analysis of Algorithmic Policing in CanadaCitizen Lab and the International Human Rights Program, University of TorontoYes
Facial recognition technology use in Policing (submission to a House of Commons committee)Canadian Human Rights CommissionYes
Ontario public-sector unions push province for workplace AI safeguardsGlobal News, 20 October 2026Yes
Principes pour une utilisation responsable de l'intelligence artificielle (IA) au sein des services de police canadiensCanadian Association of Chiefs of Police (French PDF dated 2026-07-20)Yes
CACP Data & AI Leadership Summit programme (describes C-AIPAS)Canadian Association of Chiefs of PoliceYes
CACP News Alert: Member Input Requested on Principles for the Responsible Use of AICACP via MultiBriefs (did not load for our automated fetch; text read via search result)Yes
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) CommitteeOntario Association of Chiefs of PoliceListed
Police AI reports: What supervisors must do nowPolice1 (US publication)Yes
Covenant for Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in PolicingUK National Police Chiefs' CouncilYes

Not verified, so not cited

Note on French

A French version of this site is planned. Pages would live under /fr/. See fr/README.md in the project files. [Owner to decide who translates and who reviews French before publication; machine translation alone is not recommended for legal and policing terms.] The CACP principles we cite were published in French; any English rendering on this site is our unofficial translation and is labelled as such.

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