[MarHoff]

What's bothering me the most is that he claim facial recognition is involved while no evidence at all is provided in the body of the article.

Look like a plain old identity theft with the ID card he lost... As long as they recon his innocence after "humanely comparing" his face in a police station with video footage what would actually worth 1 Bn$ ???

A few year ago a coworker of mine was often contacted by police because his car plate was used by a matching stolen car... It was embarrassing but he didn't sue the car-maker as far as I know...