Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver’s license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.
Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years, obtained through public-records requests by researchers with Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology and provided to The Washington Post, reveal that federal investigators have turned state departments of motor vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure.
Police have long had access to fingerprints, DNA and other “biometric data” taken from criminal suspects. But the DMV records contain the photos of a vast majority of a state’s residents, most of whom have never been charged with a crime.
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3 comments:
Don't know if this is good or not. But keep giving illegals drivers licenses and they can track them down. Can you say, backfire!
It's a good thing if it protects us from immigrants with records of rape and violence it is worth it, too many innocent Americans have been killed since this influx into our country to escape arrest, in Mexico and this country.
Oh wow, I bet sanctuary states (like Maryland) that issue licenses to illegals never thought of that! Poetic justice. By giving them photo licenses, they create a data base for picking out illegals (and their addresses) by the feds. You've got to love it.....
Talk about unintended consequences for liberal policies, this takes the cake.
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