Yes, I can comment on that.
Facial recognition technology has been used on only three occasions. On two occasions it was with the child exploitation centre that I'm in charge of, where they were able to identify victims of this horrible crime and create safeguard measures to protect the victims who were located in Canada. On a third occasion it was utilized to track an offender, a fugitive, who was internationally abroad.
There have been no prosecutions using this technology. It's simply been used for identification on two different files with our child exploitation centre. One was when a person from outside the country was trying to exploit two children in Canada to perform sexual acts. We were able to identify the victims and provide safeguards to protect the victims from the person who was trying to offend.
Another situation in which it was used was on an international case. There was a file from 2011 on a victim who was not able to be identified through traditional means. We were able to use facial recognition technology within our scope to identify this victim, who actually was in the States. The entire international community was trying to find this victim for a series of about nine to 10 years and were unsuccessful. We were able to use facial recognition to identify this victim who was situated in the States. We reached out to the Americans, and they were able to confirm that in fact this person was charged and convicted in the States from their information on their charges.
I guess the importance of the facial recognition is that the international community had continued to look for this victim for a series of nine to 10 years and were unable to do so. We were able to use facial recognition to identify this victim. In fact, a court process had completed in the United States of America, and he was convicted on that American charge. It had nothing to do with what we did in Canada.