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Identity Theft from 1965 Uncovered through Face Recognition: Napoleon Gonzalez assumed his deceased brother's identity in 1965 and used it to obtain Social Security benefits and multiple identification documents. A new investigation in 2020 used facial recognition technology to identify Gonzalez's face on two state identification cards. #biometrics #facerecognition #fraud #identitytheft

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/identity-theft-from-1965-uncovered-through-face-recognition.html

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jimbocoin 🃏 2y ago

Since the brother was deceased, this sounds more like identity inheritance than “theft”.

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