Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I am. They were used operationally.

Information & Ethics committee  They were utilized one time by British Columbia for an international fugitive who was abroad. That is the only time.

Information & Ethics committee  No, it hasn't.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it does.

Information & Ethics committee  We presently have an employee working at the privacy commission. We've done a work exchange. As we develop our new ways forward, we have a member located within their office, and we are asking for one of their employees to be with our office in order to strengthen that knowledge

Information & Ethics committee  If we can learn from another agency in any way, we do. We encourage that. That's why we encourage having a member from their office located with us, so we can be integrated and produce a much better product at the end.

Information & Ethics committee  No, I'm not.

Information & Ethics committee  We always look at avenues to find better technology out there. I would encourage any technology that can assist us in making things better in the child exploitation world.

Information & Ethics committee  I believe that when we use facial recognition technology, we have never used it on an offender in the child exploitation world because the offenders in the child exploitation world are generally—

Information & Ethics committee  I utilize the technology to rescue victims and have not gone down the offender side of these investigations. My use is simply to identify victims only so we can provide safeguarding measures to the victim and then start the investigative process required to identify an offender.

Information & Ethics committee  The NTOP process assesses the risks and the ethical issues, including a privacy assessment, on that technology. Once that is done, if I'm able to use it, I will use it. If I can't, I can't and I don't.

Information & Ethics committee  When I came into this position, the predecessor was not in the chair, so I would have to verify that.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry. I missed that.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I know the person who served before me—

Information & Ethics committee  The person is a retired employee—