facial recognition
Facial recognition technology has gone too far
January 17, 2025By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer Facial recognition technology (FRT) is a type of artificial intelligence that identifies people by their unique facial features. It’s being used for everything from unlocking your phone, making purchases, and boarding passes. Our province uses the BC Services Card app that requires you to submit a video of yourself to verify your identity when applying for certain financial assistance and other applications. FRT is also used in seemingly harmless photo filters online, but those put our identity at risk, too. Despite FRT becoming popular recently, its inception began in the 1960s. By the 2000s and…
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Clearview AI and 48 Canadian law enforcement agencies violate Canadian privacy laws
March 18, 2021Written by: Harvin Bhathal, Features Editor Clearview AI, the US technology company, recently came under scrutiny for their violation of Canadian privacy laws. A joint investigation from four Canadian privacy commissioners (BC, Alberta, Quebec, and federal) discovered the company indiscriminately compiled…
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World News Beat
June 1, 2018By: Trevor Steele, SFU Student Venezuelan president wins dubious second term Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has won a second term in office, in an election that involved an opposition boycott and widespread claims of electoral fraud. The election’s result…
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