Information & Ethics committee  What might be instructive is a comparator between what Canada could be doing and what the European Union is looking at under its proposed regulation on artificial intelligence. There, it clearly recognizes that individual risk assessments for the purposes of immigration and refug

Information & Ethics committee  Perhaps I'll reiterate that when we're talking about commercial interests and the kind of bottom-line thinking that the private sector often brings into the mix, it's a very different framework for responsibility when it comes to the high-risk use of technology, particularly at t

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, absolutely. When we're talking about refugee determination in particular, we're talking about an extremely high-risk application of technology. Like you rightly say, and like our report did in 2018, if mistakes are made and if someone is, for example, wrongfully deported to

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you so much. Ultimately, it comes down to the power imbalances, like you say, in this context. We already are dealing with an opaque and discretionary decision-making system in which, when humans are making really complex decisions, oftentimes it's really difficult to know

Information & Ethics committee  I would just encourage a contextual specificity with regard to this question, particularly when we're talking about freedoms: for whom? In immigration, of course, we're talking about an opaque and discretionary space that's already very high risk. In this instance, yes, it can

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you so much. My name is Petra Molnar. I'm a lawyer and an anthropologist. Today I would like to share with you a few reflections from my work on the human rights impacts of such technologies as the facial recognition used in immigration and for border management. Facial r