Information & Ethics committee  We've had an open consultation around our policy and will have another around our procedure, but we have not reached out specifically to that group or community.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't believe that's the case. I'd have to understand what they're alleging to be able to investigate that or hand it off to someone who could investigate it.

Information & Ethics committee  The surveillance might be visible with body-worn cameras, static cameras, etc. There may be operational reasons for those to be deployed. Whether they're used for FRT would not be visible to the people who are at those events. I don't understand whether they're suspicious that t

Information & Ethics committee  No, but I can't say that categorically for the entire Toronto Police Service.

Information & Ethics committee  I could take that away and see if that were the case.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not aware of Project Arachnid, other than the discussion in this committee. I wouldn't be surprised if one of our speciality teams has some relationship to it.

Information & Ethics committee  All systems have some bias, but yes, this has a different type of bias. There—

Information & Ethics committee  A fingerprint would not have a racial bias, as far as I know.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  They don't go into the mug shot database. That's a separate digital evidence management system that holds all the video from body-worn cameras. Body-worn cameras would generally not be used, or no data would be used. The circumstances wouldn't arise. There is no connection betwee

Information & Ethics committee  That's explicitly written out of our body-worn camera policy and procedure.

Information & Ethics committee  The process was initiated by our board in response to Clearview. The scope of it is slightly larger. It's looking at all AI and ML technologies, not just facial recognition. There are other technologies that have different but similar types of problems. We're looking at all of th

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. I think part of the problem we've got that triggered this conversation is that we have insufficient visibility and guidance to frontline officers on how they should approach new technologies. What we're looking to do is create a framework that allows us to filter and surfac

Information & Ethics committee  It by itself is not considered an identification—

Information & Ethics committee  —so yes, what you're saying is correct.