(The holdouts are California, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.) But while the scans are still limited, some worry those systems could be the first step toward something more troubling. Forty-three of the 50 states have used some form of that technology, with seven of those states adopting the system for driver’s licenses in the last three years. Deep learning makes it easy and cheap to scan millions of photos for duplicates and fraud, and since it doesn’t involve any extra data collection or access - you just need to find matching entries, not link them to an identity - privacy groups see it as one of the more benign forms of facial scanning. Those scans have become one of the most popular uses of facial recognition technology.
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Scanning through the driver’s license database, the program found Carnes’ face in the system under two different names, tipping police off to the fraud. He probably could have spent the rest of his life that way if it weren’t for a facial recognition program in the Iowa Department of Motor Vehicles. He’d been moving from state to state after escaping from a North Carolina prison in 1973, finally landing in Waterloo, Iowa, under a pair of assumed names. By the time the law caught up with him, Ronald Carnes had been on the run for 40 years.