Thus, dimensional lumber, both economical and lightweight, was used for nearly every structural element of the pavilion. The requirements for the project were to preserve the century-old trees while accommodating an extensive program, provide privacy, and create a sense of distance from the neighboring properties, all within a limited budget. We cannot emphasize enough that no detail was left to chance.” - Daniel & Steph, Client. “Our Pavilion forms a backdrop that we experience from inside and outside. A thoughtful composition of screening elements allows the pavilion to be at once opaque and transparent and at times luminous, and serves as the main focal point of the yard. Intentionally different from the brick and glass house, the low-lying pavilion is crafted almost exclusively in wood. The design is conceived as a pavilion - an assembly of ground, wall, and roof planes – that works together with the treeline to edit out the view of the bungalow beyond. Taking a cue from the natural screen provided by the Norway Spruce, we situated the pool structure below its canopy and along the same axis. Their requirements for the project were to preserve the century old trees while accommodating an extensive program (including a pool and pool house, outdoor kitchen, dining area, lounge, and play area), provide privacy, and create a sense of distance from neighbouring properties. This condition placed the neighbouring house in direct view from the main living space of the family’s home and rear yard. The rear yard, bare and modest in scale, is defined by a towering row of Norway Spruce flanking a dip in the ground plane along the rear lot line. The encompassing subdivision was once the site of an apple orchard with a ‘clear view’ of Toronto, but now resembles a suburban monopoly board of brick and glass. The four privacy commissioners said that their investigation found that 48 entities in Canada had gotten user accounts with Clearview starting in 2019.The Clearview Pavilion, built for a young family of 4, is situated on a residential property in King City, Ontario. Their statement added that “the company’s databank of more than three billion images, including of Canadians and children” exposed people to police searches that created “the risk of significant harm to individuals, the vast majority of whom have never been and will never be implicated in a crime.” The four privacy commissioners say that their investigation left no question that the use of Clearview AI software “represented mass surveillance and was a clear violation of the privacy rights of Canadians.” “We are working, in this case with, provincial colleagues who have order-making authority and we know there are also foreign data-protection authorities of other jurisdictions outside of Canada who are also investigating Clearview.” Therrien said that he will go to court, or form alliances with other privacy commissioners, to compel the company to follow through on this. But they are demanding that the company stop collecting data about Canadians and delete files based on their faces. The privacy commissioners in Canada have not pursued any penalties yet against Clearview AI. The company is facing lawsuits and privacy-law investigations around the world. The investigation by the four Canadian privacy commissioners is one of the first to declare that Clearview AI’s data gathering is illegal. Clearview AI “discontinued its services to its only remaining Canadian subscriber, the RCMP, in July, 2020,” said Vito Pilieci, a spokesman for the federal commissioner. Privacy investigations helped put an end to this practice. Police forces in Canada, including the RCMP, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Toronto Police Service, admitted they had acquired the technology, largely through trial accounts that the company had offered to detectives and officers. In January, 2020, Clearview AI found itself at the centre of a global controversy after its technology was revealed through a New York Times investigation.
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