FBI, ICE use driver license photos
without owners’ knowledge or consent
by
Drew Harwell
Original Article
Posted By: mamabear,
7/8/2019 7:46:46 PM
WASHINGTON — 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 hundreds of millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 7/8/2019 7:48:19 PM (No. 118010)
like what google is doing?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 7/8/2019 8:00:24 PM (No. 118022)
No wonder ny is giving DLs to everybody that wants one. One reason anyway.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pinger 7/8/2019 8:05:40 PM (No. 118027)
Without getting too deep into the weeds on this subject, I have committed no crime so I don’t give a damn whether they look at my photograph or not.
21 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/8/2019 8:21:05 PM (No. 118035)
IIRC, some constitutional scholars have already opined that illegals do not have the rights that citizens do under our constitution. I do not mind them looking at my photo, as long as they corral at least three illegals and deport them. With the overreaching judiciary blocking every move Trump tries to make, somebody has to help Trump. I guess it will be us.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
radrelic 7/8/2019 8:21:31 PM (No. 118036)
I for one do not care. Maybe they also could hack Google and Facebook for more info being collected?
Maybe someday we can get an app that will find that proverbial doppelganger we are all statistically supposed to have?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cThree 7/8/2019 8:25:55 PM (No. 118039)
The Drivers License is a public record; it's kept on file by the government bureaucracies. I'm shocked, shocked! that the government would refer to it for whatever reason. What would I expect?!
Maybe I'm too unruffled, but I just am. I'll save my righteous anger for selective abuse of government resources, of the Lois Lerner sort, or the Jim Comey sort and so on.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chumley 7/8/2019 8:50:53 PM (No. 118058)
The only information and / or authority the government will not abuse is that which they do not have. I think this FISA matter pretty well carves that into stone. These are not your friends.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/8/2019 10:03:08 PM (No. 118102)
Those photos are government records and were created in the first place to ensure that the person identifying himself or herself by presenting a drivers license is the same person to who the drivers license was issued. It is the same with passports, and should be the same with modern reissued social security cards.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
proximo 7/8/2019 10:40:44 PM (No. 118126)
Since not too long after 9/11/01, we've been living in a police state. Get used to it.
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I love this! Dems are giving illegals driver's licenses and now it's being used to deport them. Unintended consequences coming home to roost
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FLCracker 7/8/2019 11:19:54 PM (No. 118151)
I'm with you, #9. I don't think you have a presumption of privacy for your face. It's kinda what you present to the rest of the world and is the Number One way we identify each other.
Wich is why we don't like people running around in ski masks and face veils and such things.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/8/2019 11:32:32 PM (No. 118158)
And we're to believe them when they say they won't use national gun registration to go out and pick up everyones guns at some point in the future?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bamboozle 7/8/2019 11:33:16 PM (No. 118160)
I bet that they also use the national fingerprint registry as well as police records without informing you as well.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 7/8/2019 11:34:18 PM (No. 118162)
It’s public record. Let’s see if the aclu sues
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/8/2019 11:34:49 PM (No. 118165)
Wow! The trade of liberty for security continues. “I got nothing to hide.” Yeah, until the inevitable future arrives. #10 nails it, as #8.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Trigger2 7/9/2019 1:35:06 AM (No. 118208)
When the Patriot Act was running through Congress, we all knew what would eventually happen. All those morons in Congress (except maybe one or two of them agreed with us) kept saying no, no, no, it was to protect the country. BS. The Patriot Act's purpose was to spy on all citizens and gather a data base on them to extort or threaten them with prosecution on trumped up charges if it suited their own political purpose. Has there been any jihadi or home grown terrorists ever been charged under this Act? No, but it was used to come up with trumped up charges to unseat a sitting president, wasn't it? The Patriot Act was a huge step toward socialism/fascism/communism (take your pick).
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
blueline 7/9/2019 4:25:24 AM (No. 118236)
The comPost shrieks about this, yet when the Ovomit administration was "unmasking" and abusing the FISA warrant process, crickets.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
judy 7/9/2019 4:58:13 AM (No. 118239)
WP... the last I read law enforcement agencies are exempt from the federal privacy protection act. Drivers license is not public record. A subpoena or court order is required to view someones record. Law enforcement & your insurance company is entitled to our record. Drivers license is a privilege, not a right.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 7/9/2019 5:51:37 AM (No. 118252)
Just in, FBI wiretaps political opponents too.
Call Samantha Power and Susan Rice. Chat em up about unmasking innocent Americans.
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