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Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles: Face Recognition

Agency Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
Location Tallahassee, FL
Technology Face Recognition
Vendor /search

Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has access to the oldest face recognition program in the country, Face Analysis Comparison and Examination System (FACES), which includes 19 million driver’s licence photos (as of 2015) shared with 273 partner agencies (as of 2019), including 17 federal agencies (including FBI FACE Services Unit, ICE, CBP, and IRS), as well as university police and many other state and federal agencies.

More about this technology

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