How states use facial recognition to sniff out driver's license fraud
by Russell Brandom from The Verge - All Posts on (#1QHRE)
By the time the law caught up with him, Ronald Carnes had been on the run for 40 years. 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.
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. 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.