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"Today I was joined by Michael Balboni, the State's Deputy Secretary for Public Safety, to demonstrate the effectiveness, viability and security of the new state-of-the-art anti-fraud measures DMV plans to implement. DMV is adding these significant and innovative anti-fraud initiatives to its driver licensing program to ensure New York's licensing system is the most secure and most comprehensive in the country."

"DMV is strengthening its mission to ensure public safety by issuing one license that accurately identifies each motorist. The technologies being adopted by DMV, including document scanning and authentication equipment and photo comparison/facial recognition technology, have been successfully utilized by many other public and private entities. After exhaustive tests are concluded by the DMV, and the systems are in place, we are confident that our approach will offer New Yorkers maximum choice for driver's licenses to bring as many people into the system as possible, while upholding the strictest security standards in the nation."

"That is why the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff specifically acknowledged that, 'These techniques will make New York licenses among the most secure in the country.'"

"As we go forward, according to federal mandates, New York will offer three separate and secure licenses – all used for different purposes according to federal law – in a way that allows DMV to strengthen the security of its system and increase the safety of all New Yorkers."

 

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