Edmonton Police Trial AI Facial Recognition Bodycams

The Edmonton Police Service is trialing new bodycam facial recognition technology to identify what they have deemed “high-risk offenders.”

Speaking to the CBC, senior research associate Kate Robertson says, “As someone who has been studying algorithmic policing technologies for nearly a decade, and [previously] a lawyer in Canada’s justice system, I have to say that this is likely the most high risk algorithmic surveillance program that I have observed to date in Canada.”