"the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver’s license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes.... a virtual lineup by getting a driver’s license.... the de facto law enforcement database"
Say cheese, citizen of AmeriKa!
"FBI delves into DMV photos in high-tech search for fugitives; Privacy advocates wary of misuse" by Mike Baker, Associated Press | October 13, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. - In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver’s license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes.
The project in North Carolina has already helped apprehend at least one suspect. Agents are eager to look for more criminals and possibly to expand the effort nationwide. But privacy advocates worry that the method allows authorities to track people who have done nothing wrong.
“Everybody’s participating, essentially, in a virtual lineup by getting a driver’s license,’’ said Christopher Calabrese, an attorney who focuses on privacy issues at the American Civil Liberties Union.... Calabrese said Americans should be concerned about how their driver’s licenses are being used. Licenses “started as a permission to drive,’’ he said. “Now you need them to open a bank account. You need them to be identified everywhere. And suddenly they’re becoming the de facto law enforcement database.’’
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Facial-recognition software is not entirely new, but the North Carolina project is the first major step for the FBI as it considers expanding use of the technology to find fugitives nationwide. So-called biometric information that is unique to each person also includes fingerprints and DNA. More distant possibilities include iris patterns in the eye, voices, scent, and even a person’s gait.
Are they that distant, MSM? We are laying them on our occupied subjects as I type and the technology is already in place; this is the agenda-pushing roll-out!
FBI officials have organized a panel of authorities to study how best to increase use of the software. It will take at least a year to establish standards for license photos, and there’s no timetable to roll out the program nationally....
Yeah, right, no timetable, blah, blah, blah -- as the GLOBALIST CONTROL GRID is ERECTED right in front of you.
State and federal laws allow driver’s license agencies to release records for law enforcement, and local agencies have access to North Carolina’s database, too. But the FBI is not authorized to collect and store the photos. That means the facial-recognition analysis must be done at the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles.
“Unless the person is a criminal, we would not have a need to have that information in the system,’’ said Kim Del Greco, who oversees the FBI’s biometrics division. “I think that would be a privacy concern. We’re staying away from that.’’
Dan Roberts, assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, added: “We’re not interested in housing a bunch of photos of people who have done absolutely nothing wrong.’’Yeah, sure, like the FBI never did that in the past. Heck, they like setting 'em up!!
These guys really take us for fools.
“Running facial recognition is not very labor-intensive at all,’’ analyst Michael Garcia said. “If I can probe a hundred fugitives and get one or two, that’s a home run.’’
Yeah, tyranny is great; just don't ask how we got here.
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