Thread: Arkansas uses program to check faces for ID cards

Arkansas uses program to check faces for ID cards
By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette - Published: 04/23/2008

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Associated Press Mike Munns, with the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, speaks Tuesday during a Joint Committee on Advance Communications and Information Technology meeting, Tuesday at the Capitol in Little Rock.

LITTLE ROCK—The state of Arkansas is using a facial-recognition program on every image recently captured for driver’s licenses and identification cards to check for matches, a step they say will ferret out fraud while raising privacy fears among others.

The program, funded by a federal grant, already allowed state employees to scan through 2.6 million images, said Michael Munns, an assistant commissioner with the state Department of Finance and Administration. The funding initially went toward halting fraud among commercial driver’s licenses, but quickly expanded.

“The intent there was to make sure people didn’t have multiple licenses and CDLs and regular licenses where they could spread tickets or driving offenses,â€

Yeah, I like how they intended to use it for one thing and then expand it. They didnt talk about how their software gives false matches and they glossed over that everyone would be in a federal database. That makes it a National ID Card.