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• The proliferation of technology for everyday living can be seen through ChatGPT writing term papers or robots serving meals at a restaurant.
• Technology can also be used towards less utilitarian ends.

Technology and policing

• Footage from his body camera will provide evidence during the trial of his accused killers.
• Police investigations have also been aided by private citizen sleuths via technology, who gather evidence to help police identify criminals.
• Another use of technology can be for public surveillance for crime prevention through the application of facial recognition software.

Finding faces

• Captured faces are compared to a database, often for the purposes of crime prevention.
• Later, it was determined that Soika was misidentified by the artificial intelligence (AI) used by Canadian Tire for facial recognition.
• In 2023, Canadian Tire Corporation and its dealers have since agreed to no longer use facial recognition technology.
• Read more:
  AI technologies — like police facial recognition — discriminate against people of colour

Discrimination and AI

• Facial recognition software is documented to misidentify women, racialized people and those between the ages of 18-30 years, with accuracy reduced to 35 per cent.
• Police used AI that had run an image of a carjacker caught on video through a mugshot database that contained Woodruff’s photo, and incorrectly matched it.

Consequences of misidentification

• The Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions finds approximately a third of their cases involved false identification.
• People can show what is known as “own-race bias” when identifying faces; people are more accurate when identifying faces of their own race than other races.
• The misidentification of a perpetrator — whether by a human or an AI program — can lead to the same consequences: being charged, prosecuted or wrongfully convicted.

Joanna Pozzulo receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

• Built to simplify the holiday shopping experience, Canada's Christmas Lists takes the guesswork out of gifting by allowing customers to build, share and shop personalized Christmas lists with friends and family.
• "As Canada's Christmas Store, we're pulling out all the stops to make your holiday season magical," says Ilana Santone, Senior Vice President, Digital & Connected Retail at Canadian Tire.
• To unwrap more gift gifting inspiration as shoppers build their Christmas lists, Canadian Tire has teamed up with notable Canadian creators Roxy Earle, Jedson Tavernier, Lyndsey Smith and Marianne Plaisance, as they unveil their absolute must-haves for 2023!
• For more information or to create your own Christmas List with Canadian Tire, please visit CanadianTire.ca/CanadasChristmasLists .

• Paul, Weiss announced today that 13 prominent private equity transactional partners are joining the firm to significantly expand its global private equity practices, led by Neel V. Sachdev and Roger Johnson in London and Eric J. Wedel in New York and Los Angeles.
• Roger has long advised global private equity firms and financial sponsor clients on all forms of cross-border leveraged M&A and portfolio assistance, including restructuring advice.
• Will regularly advises on the most complex cross-border private equity transactions in the region, including private M&A, buyouts, carve-outs, co-investments, consortium deals and distressed acquisitions.
• His clients include TDR Capital, Hillhouse Investment, I Squared Capital, and numerous other major private equity firms.

• TORONTO, Aug. 29, 2023 /CNW/ - Scotiabank today announced the appointment of Sandra Stuart and Michael Medline to its Board of Directors.
• "We are very pleased to welcome Sandra and Michael to Scotiabank's Board.
• Sandra is a seasoned business leader with extensive global financial services and operations experience from her time at HSBC Bank.
• Prior to joining Empire in 2017, Mr. Medline held retail leadership positions at Canadian Tire Corporation, including President and Chief Executive Officer.