Facing ID theft.

Here's a little story about Colorado's use of facial recognition in obtaining driver's licenses. This is an interesting excerpt:

Of the nearly 735,000 applications processed between January and September 2004, motor vehicle officials found 528 fraudulent applications - about a quarter of them solely as a result of the facial-recognition computer program.

However even though the computer can narrow down matches to a handful versus a score of people in the database, a human touch is still needed to make that final confirmation. When the computer notices similarities, it's up to an investigator to decide if it's the same person.

Facial scanning targets ID theft.

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