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100 Arrested In New York Thanks To Better Face-Recognition Technology (arstechnica.com)
New York doubled the number of "measurement points" used by their facial recognitation technology this year, leading to 100 arrests for fraud and identity theft, plus another 900 open cases. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica:
In all, since New York implemented facial recognition technology in 2010, more than 14,000 people have been hampered trying to get multiple licenses. The newly upgraded system increases the measurement points of a driver's license picture from 64 to 128.
The DMV said this vastly improves its chances of matching new photographs with one already in a database of 16 million photos... "Facial recognition plays a critical role in keeping our communities safer by cracking down on individuals who break the law," Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a statement. "New York is leading the nation with this technology, and the results from our use of this enhanced technology are proof positive that its use is vital in making our roads safer and holding fraudsters accountable."
At least 39 US states use some form of facial recognition software, and New York says their new system also "removes high-risk drivers from the road," stressing that new licenses will no longer be issued until a photo clears their database.
The DMV said this vastly improves its chances of matching new photographs with one already in a database of 16 million photos... "Facial recognition plays a critical role in keeping our communities safer by cracking down on individuals who break the law," Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a statement. "New York is leading the nation with this technology, and the results from our use of this enhanced technology are proof positive that its use is vital in making our roads safer and holding fraudsters accountable."
At least 39 US states use some form of facial recognition software, and New York says their new system also "removes high-risk drivers from the road," stressing that new licenses will no longer be issued until a photo clears their database.
its use is vital in making our roads safer
and New York says their new system also "removes high-risk drivers from the road," stressing that new licenses will no longer be issued until a photo clears their database.
Because no one has ever driven without a license. Especially those 'high risk drivers'.
Once thieves start wearing masks, the only use of facial recognition will be to track non-criminals
RTFA. The main use of this tech (so far) is to prevent people from getting additional drivers licenses under false names. You can't wear a mask while getting your DL photo. Another common use of facial recognition is to identify people that have warrants while they are in public places. Actually identifying a perp in the process of committing a crime is much less common, and is not what this system is designed to do.
I call 100% Organic, dolphin-free Bullshit! Name one place in America where you are allowed to have your DL photo taken while wearing a mask because of SHARIA!! (Boogety-boogety...) You can't, because your paranoia has you blinded.
Fine, then name one country. Even Saudi Arabia makes women remove their veils for State ID photos.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
False positive? What is the rate of misidentifying two people who look alike as being the same? How do they plan to deal with this? It could be seriously problematic for the victims of such a mistake, worse than erroneously being on the no-fly list.
There was a report of twins applying for a learner's permit at the same time running into problems, so this can happen.
Applying for a second license under a false name seems to happen when the first license has lots of unpaid fines and/or the license is revoked. So if A has a perfectly fine license, and B applies for a license and happens to look exactly like A, this would look a lot less suspicious. Should be fine to give B his license and then investigate. On the other hand, if A's license is revoked, then this is more suspicious and more risky. The first idea would be to contact both A and B, and if they can both be contacted, it should be possibly to prove they are different. If A cannot be contacted, that makes it a bit tougher. You would ask B for evidence that he has existed for some time.
There's a difference to the no-fly list: That gets people into trouble at the airport, with very little time to sort out any problems.