Connecticut To Store Biometric Information

AugstWest writes: "I just got word that when I renew my driver's license, I will have to submit to allowing the CT DMV to store biometric information, as well as smile for facial recognition software from Viisage to be able to continue driving. I am so appalled, I don't even know where to begin. With all of the national law enforcement agencies opening up their databases to each other, is this the first step in taking a surveillance society to a tracking society?"

This is not new

[wadetemp]

To get my license 8 years ago, I also had some biometric information stored and I smiled for a facial recognition system.

I distinctly remember filling out a form with my height, weight, eye and hair color. I also had to submit handwriting samples. Then, they sat me down in front of a large box and my face was scanned for these features. Everything was imprinted on a small piece of plastic which I carry with me today, and which the DMV also has a copy of.

The facial recognition technology is still about as bad today as it was 8 years ago. I swear, that's not me.

Re:Undue Restrictions

[Anonymous Coward]

when they ask for your thumb print, tell them "hold on, I use my own ink" and then drop your pants and stuff your thumb up your ass. Get it good and brown, and voila, give them the thumb print they demanded.

Solution

[glowingspleen]

Just squinch your face up. Sure you'll have a wacky license picture, but you'll stay anonymous on the cameras...

Re:where's the line

[flewp]

Yeah really. The other day I was speeding and a stealth fighter flew up next to me. My piddly little handgun sure didn't deter it from pulling me over.

Tattoo your face, dude.

[Medievalist]

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Go to Spencer's, get one of those packs of temporary tattoos, put several on your face, and when they ask you about them stare coldly (or chuckle jovially, whichever makes them feel more like Nazi interogators) and ask them if there is a law against tattoos.

Don't admit they are temporary and don't let them touch you (but be courteous at all times).

Put some cotton wadding in your cheeks, too. Not a lot, though - you want humans to be able to ID you from your drivers' license.

--Charlie