Mr. Chair, yes, I believe so.
In our current legislative regime, there are wide gaps that seem to have been exploited at this time to allow some uses of this technology in ways that have yet to be critiqued or examined in front of a judge. I think that's going to happen probably in the near future here in Canada, but it can be pre-empted if we sit down and think very carefully through whether there are ways this can be done safely.
In some cases, the answer is going to be no. CCLA supports a complete ban on mass surveillance uses of this technology.
In some cases, such as the current police use of facial recognition technology in conjunction with mug shot databases, for example, even those uses are not necessarily uncontroversial. We simply haven't thought about them. Police use of FRT for mug shot databases is being conducted on legacy databases that have their own issues of bias and discrimination that we have known about for a really long time.
I think it's not just the mass surveillance aspects of this, but also the more targeted ones that we haven't grappled with.