Cutting Edge Technology Protects New Yorkers from Potentially Dangerous High-Risk Drivers, Fraud, and Identity Theft
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the Department of Motor Vehicles' Facial Recognition Technology Program has identified more than 21,000 possible cases of identity theft or fraud since its launch, with more than 7,000 of those cases generated in the last 18 months alone. This milestone is due in part to a major technology upgrade in January 2016 that doubled the number of measurement points mapped to each driver's photograph, vastly improving the system's ability to match a picture to one that already exists in the database, and identify people who had two or more identities. To date, these investigations have resulted in more than 4,000 arrests and more than 16,000 individuals facing administrative action.
