Mr. Chair, this is, again, what our public safety institution is doing indirectly when it cannot do it directly. Clearview AI's technology is used to identify people by matching photographs against their database of three billion images. That's just a fact.
In fact, according to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, only 6% of the searches recorded by Clearview appear linked to NCECC victim identification, and approximately 85% are not accounted for at all by the RCMP.
Given this context, what was the purpose of the RCMP's staff who conducted these searches? Would you not agree that with a 6% hit rate and 85% unaccountability, that would constitute mass surveillance and an unlawful and unwarranted gathering of information against the general public?