By acquiring a driver's license in most states, you are "consenting" to having your biometric data in a government database which is then searchable and used for instant photographic recognition of your person as you appear in public.
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Thirty-seven states now use facial-recognition technology in their driver's-license registries, a Washington Post review found. At least 26 of those allow state, local or federal law enforcement agencies to search — or request searches — of photo databases in an attempt to learn the identities of people considered relevant to investigations.
Civil libertarians ask if the databases authorities are building could someday be used for monitoring political rallies, sporting events or even busy downtown areas. Free speech and the right to assemble could be chilled by the prospect of pervasive surveillance.
"As a society, do we want to have total surveillance? Do we want to give the government the ability to identify individuals wherever they are . . . without any immediate probable cause?" asked Laura Donohue, a Georgetown University law professor who has studied government facial databases. "A police state is exactly what this turns into if everybody who drives has to lodge their information with the police."
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