Colorado Police Have Quietly Expanded Facial Recognition Use

Governing: When Aurora police wanted to know the identity of two armed men protesting outside a police station, they sent a screenshot from a video to the Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles and asked investigators there to run the image through facial recognition software.

Investigators with the DMV were able to match one of the men against the agency’s database of driver’s license photos and detectives identified him. The other man couldn’t be identified.

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