They didn’t let them die calmly: the face recognition system that pretended his death was found by the face recognition system

A businessman from Florida was accused of falsifying his death abroad and was arrested after the face recognition system found a match in the photo from the application for a passport with a photograph from old documents. The businessman is also accused of fraud with the insurance company: his family tried to collect the sum insured.

In 2013, Jose Salvador Lantigua was declared deceased by the Venezuelan authorities . On Monday, March 23, 2015, a special agent for the U.S. Diplomatic Security Bureau wrote to a North Carolina federal judge that Jose Salvador was impersonating Ernest Allen Wills: in November 2014, a fraudster applied for a U.S. citizen's passport under that name.

Charleston Passport Center launched a photo check on the database, and then discovered the “original” passport. Bureau officials arrested a suspect who wore a brown wig and painted a beard. According to a new statement on the document, he was African American, and the old one indicated “white”.

In January 2015, the FBI announced the presence of millions of photographs that could be punched through the databases to search for suspects, and that the system was ready to go. In August 2014, a criminal accused of sexual harassment of children and abductions and wanted for 14 years was detained as a result of using a face recognition system.