Airports and industries should be required to publicly disclose their use of facial recognition, while the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians should review any military or intelligence use of the technology, they said. Tamir Israel, a lawyer with the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, testified at the committee that travelers might not be aware they're subject to the technology, such as at the customs screening mechanism at the Pearson Airport in Toronto. The government should disclose its own acquisitions of the technology, and "create a public AI registry in which all algorithmic tools used by any entity operating in Canada are listed," MPs said. Privacy lawyer Carole Piovesan told the committee that while discussions on FRT "tend to focus on security and surveillance," the technology is also used by other sectors, including health care, retail and e-commerce, and telecom and IT. The technology is also more accurate in identifying white individuals, and less accurate in identifying people of colour.

A new report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Future of Work has called on the government to bring forward robust proposals for artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. The APPG inquiry found that AI is transforming work and working lives across the country in ways that have plainly outpaced, or avoid, the existing regimes for regulation. Their recommendations are aimed at ensuring that the AI ecosystem is genuinely human-centred, principles-driven and accountable to shape a future of better work. They are centred around a proposal for an Accountability for Algorithms Act ('the AAA'). The AAA offers an overarching, principles-driven framework for governing and regulating AI in response to the fast-changing developments in workplace technology.