-Caveat Lector- from alt.politics.media ----- As always, Caveat Lector. Om K ----- <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.politics.media:93086">ALL DRIVER PHOTOS ON NATIONAL MUG SHOT DATA BASE: A CALL TO ARMS WANTED</A> ----- Subject: ALL DRIVER PHOTOS ON NATIONAL MUG SHOT DATA BASE: A CALL TO ARMS WANTED From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dctest Anonymous Remailer) Date: Fri, Jan 22, 1999 8:04 AM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ====================================================================== SCAN THIS NEWS 1/20/99 I just received this interesting tid-bit from a subscriber regarding Texas digital driver's licenses... -------------- "My daughter renewed her drivers license in January and today we received a letter from the Texas Department of Public Safety license issuance Bureau on green stationary saying that her new license 'cannot be issued due to a processing error'." "I called to inquire and was told that somehow 13,000 digital applications (meaning digital photos, digital prints, digital signatures) have been "lost" and applicants must return in person to redo the three 'D's'." "No explanation was offered as to where all this digital info. disappeared to." "Instills one with total confidence and security." roc ---------------- On a related note: Anyone who listened to President Clinton's State of the Union Address last night heard him propose a new, federally-run "digital mug shot" database program. What this will be is merely a computer link-up of all the states' existing digital driver's license photographs. In fact, such a system was one of the primary, secretive, concealed purposes for going to going to digital photos in the first place; which almost every state in the country has now done. One state, West Virginia, even uses digital "facial recognition" technology. The Department of Transportation confirmed the real intent for digital photos in their booklet "The Highway Safety Deskbook" published for the benefit of law enforcement. In it, they stated that the AAMVA has been pushing for several years to standardize driver's licenses across the United States. The AAMVA's plan includes digital driver's license photos and digital fingerprints. The Deskbook further revealed the true objective in going to digital photos as follows: "With a central image database of every driver in a state, the public safety community has a ready-made storehouse of photos to be used in criminal investigations. Due to the electronic nature of these images, they can be obtained in seconds via a computer retrieval unit in the department or even faxed or thermal printed directly to the patrol car. These same images can also be brought into a photo array for suspect identification." "The uses for these images are limited only by the wants and needs of the public safety community." Sadly, no one was told when they had their digital driver's license photo taken that it would one day be placed in a federal "mug shot" database. Unfortunately, it is too late to protest now. Digitally captured photo, signatures, and fingerprints are un-retrievable once they're place them into the system. These digitized databases are backed up to several locations every night. And, they may even have already shared or distributed the digital information to other systems without the licensee's knowledge. They (the state licensing agencies) are under no obligation whatsoever to tell the licensee what they have done with, or are going to do with, the personal "identifying" information supplied to them by the license applicant. As a further example, it was reported in the Winter of 1998 that Florida has already contracted to sell their driver's license photos, names, and addresses to a private check-authorizing company for commercial use. --------------------------------- An abbreviated version of the Deskbook is available at: http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint/page2/fp-hwy-safety-deskbk-brief.html The full version is available at the DOT web page: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/enforce/deskbk.html ======================================================================= Don't believe anything you read on the Net unless: 1) you can confirm it with another source, and/or 2) it is consistent with what you already know to be true. ======================================================================= Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ======================================================================= To subscribe to the free Scan This News newsletter, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and type "subscribe scan" in the BODY. 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