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 New Jersey bans smiling 
#16883303 - 09/20/12 11:41 PM (7 months, 26 days ago) |
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Not really in the "scope", but meh 
New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission bans smiling in driver's license photos
Waiting in line for a new driver's license can be unpleasant for anyone, but motorists in New Jersey appear particularly unhappy in their photos.
That's because the state launched a new face-recognition software in January that forbids drivers from making big smiles or other facial expressions in their license photos, according to The Associated Press. Wide smiles and other exaggerated expressions can confuse the software.
The software is intended to catch fraudsters, the Philadelphia Daily News said. If a new photo matches an old one under a different name, the program alerts authorities and the person can be investigated.
"That could be someone trying to steal someone else's identity to get insurance benefits, or someone trying to get out of a DUI by getting a license under another name," Mike Horan of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission told the Philadelphia Daily News. "This helps us weed out fraud."
Horan said that slight smiles are acceptable, but "hey-I-won-the-lottery-type-smiles" are not.
Fox 29 in Philadelphia reports that Pennsylvania and Delaware also use the face-recognition software, though they do not have rules against motorists smiling in their license photos.
One unhappy driver left her local Motor Vehicle Commission office without renewing her license after the office's staff couldn't adequately explain the ban.
"Your picture means a lot; it's who you are," Velvet McNeil, of Sicklerville, N.J., told the Philadelphia Daily News. "Why should we all look like androids, looking mopey? I know there are some people who don't have good driver's licenses, but I actually keep all mine."
The smile ban isn't the only New Jersey driver's license requirement that has faced resistance. In May, injunctions from the ACLU-NJ blocked the state from issuing new driver's licenses with stricter document requirements. The injunction was extended for seven more weeks in August.
Source: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/new_jersey_motor_vehicle_commi.html
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Re: New Jersey bans smiling [Re: Shroom_i] 1
#16883350 - 09/20/12 11:50 PM (7 months, 26 days ago) |
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what the fuck is this shit? not only do they want to track us with facial recognition software but they also want to make everyone an unhappy fuck
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Re: New Jersey bans smiling [Re: Shroom_i]
#16883928 - 09/21/12 01:25 AM (7 months, 26 days ago) |
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I've seen that though when I'm waiting at the RMV, on the monitor I saw a chinese kid with a big grin on his face.
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Meh, this has been the law here for as long as I can remember , same with passports too
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Re: New Jersey bans smiling [Re: SolverT]
#16885327 - 09/21/12 10:25 AM (7 months, 25 days ago) |
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This is enforced in other states as well
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This is standard in a lot of state's. I thought Jersey had already had some law like this, or i've been told not to smile while getting my L'z in NJ. NJ sucks anyways, it's like living in South Carolina, if you're still there it must mean you have not fully realized you can leave the state.
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Re: New Jersey bans smiling [Re: Novartis]
#16886327 - 09/21/12 02:04 PM (7 months, 25 days ago) |
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So true, lol
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Re: New Jersey bans smiling [Re: boneynerd]
#16886543 - 09/21/12 02:39 PM (7 months, 25 days ago) |
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looking to find some work before i up and leave.
responsibility and thangs
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Re: New Jersey bans smiling [Re: Shroom_i]
#16886561 - 09/21/12 02:43 PM (7 months, 25 days ago) |
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Well it's not like living in New Jersey is anything to smile about anyway.
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Re: New Jersey bans smiling [Re: Dark_Star]
#16887169 - 09/21/12 04:46 PM (7 months, 25 days ago) |
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government required IDs
In which you're ordered to contort your face in certain ways.
They're just gonna get as invasive and outrageous, as Third Reich as they wanna be aren't they? Truth is, this shit is WAY further than the Reich could have DREAMED of when it was extant. Yeah they did some bad shit, and have a lot of murders on their hands but you're SHITTING yourself if you think the incarcerations, killings, tax theft, bullshit like this, etc. doesn't compare READILY to the holocaust. How many MILLIONS of innocents have lost their lives, whether behind cages or placed in the ground from U.S./ Western bullets? Way more than the 7 million or so that died during the Holocaust.
The only thing that separates the two is the time frame in which it occurred, which I will admit is significantly different, but then a World War is a very new thing, and relatively uncommon if you look at history.
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Re: New Jersey bans smiling [Re: Humility]
#16891391 - 09/22/12 11:49 AM (7 months, 24 days ago) |
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How did this even make news? Whats the big deal? Do people use their drivers license to pick up chicks in Jersey or something?
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I usually don't, but when I'm told what facial expression I'm allowed to use when taking a picture that I have to occasionally flash around, it kind of grinds my gears.
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