Texas Department of Public Safety: Face Recognition

Agency	Texas Department of Public Safety
Location	Austin, TX
Technology	Face Recognition
Vendor

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) maintains the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles photo repository, which includes a face recognition system established by state statute. The statute also requires that DPS use the face recognition system to aid law enforcement agencies in conducting criminal investigations. DPS also has an agreement to respond to face recognition requests from FBI’s FACE Services.

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Nonprofit report (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Government information (Government Accountability Office)

More about this technology

Software that can identify or verify the identity of an individual using their face.