FBI Bringing Biometric Photo Scanning To North Carolina, Via DMV

AHuxley writes "The FBI is getting fast new systems to look at local North Carolina license photos via the DMV. As the FBI is not authorized to collect and store the photos, they use the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles. The system takes seconds to look at chin widths and nose sizes. The expanded technology used on millions of motorist could be rolled out across the USA. The FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System is also getting an upgrade to DNA records, 3-D facial imaging, palm prints and voice scans."

Comments

Re:I wish my state was like New Hampshire....

[poetmatt]

Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but do you know how many countries require you to have a passport to get in? All of the european union for sure. Not *once* you're in, but to get in for example.

Re:I wish my state was like New Hampshire....

[commodore64_love]

>>>Governments can't be trusted.

I'm glad Hitler didn't have this photo-filtering technology in 1935. He would have skipped all the nonsense of registration and yellow armbands, and just gone directly to drivers' licenses to find and round-up all the Jews (and other enemies). This new efficient technology would have allowed him to succeed in his goal virtually overnight. Oh yes I know. Godwin's Theory. I don't care - history is history and those who ignore history are fools.

Or just read the book Fatherland -

- "The setting is Berlin, 1964, some 20 years after the Third Reich's victory in World War II. Germany and the U.S. the world's two superpowers, find themselves in a cold war resulting from a nuclear stalemate; but U.S. President Joe Kennedy is soon to visit Berlin for an historic summit meeting with Hitler, clearing the way for detente. Meanwhile, cynical police detective Xavier March finds hard evidence of the wartime extermination of Europe's Jews..."