ID.me does use facial recognition to match against databases, CEO admits
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge ID.me, a facial recognition company that has been contracted by the IRS to verify taxpayers' identity, uses a powerful facial recognition technique to match faces against a larger database, despite earlier claims to the contrary.
According to a LinkedIn post made by CEO Blake Hall Wednesday and spotted by reporters at CyberScoop, the company does use a technique known as one-to-many face matching in which a target face is compared against a database of other known faces to find possible matches.
This contradicts previous public statements made by the company, including a press release issued just days ago, where comments attributed to Blake Hall said the company used only a less powerful form of facial recognition known as one-to-one...