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Not rediculous.
The biometric identification doesn't work right if you smile.
http://news.yahoo.com/jersey-bans-sm...opstories.html
Going to the department of motor vehicles can put a frown on anyone's face, but for New Jersey residents, smiling is officially against the rules.
The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission has cracked down on drivers smiling in their driver's license photos because their smiles could interfere with new facial recognition software.
New Jersey resident Velvet McNeil told the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday that when she went to get her license at her local New Jersey motor vehicle center, she was told she could not smile for her photo. Shocked, McNeil said she walked out of the center.
"Your picture means a lot," she told the newspaper. "It's who you are."
Elyse Coffey, a spokeswoman for the Motor Vehicle Commission, said that there was no law banning smiles, only a simple request that drivers not smile "as if you've just won $5 million in the lottery."
"The digital photos allow us to conduct a facial recognition scrub, which allows us to check the photos of our 19 million faces to make sure each driver has only one driving record and you are who you say you are," Coffey said. "We're asking customers not to make exaggerated facial expressions."
Coffey said that residents are also asked to remove glasses and head wear, unless it is for religious reasons, as well as to keep their eyes open in order for the database to operate properly.
This is ridiculous. Who cares if you smile in your driver's license photo? It's yours so you should be to smile in the picture if you want to do so.
Not rediculous.
The biometric identification doesn't work right if you smile.
Yeah we don't need more police state bio-bull
Who gives a about biometrics? When you say that a person can't smile in a photo, you're crossing the line in my opinion. You're telling that person how they should feel. You're saying that a certain emotion is illegal or wrong. That's bull . Your emotions and thoughts are yours and no one should have ownership of them or be able to tell you how to run them.
I don't like it either,but the state can do as they please of this as a drivers ID is not a right to have.
An ID is an ID... Several years ago they started implementing a biometrics database. Smiling changes the face enough as not to get proper biometric data of a person. Biometrics is not part of a person's ID, like it or not.
biometrics. A person shouldn't be told what type of emotions they can feel and experience just because of a ty technology. I do think that a person should have control and ownership of their emotions and thoughts but if it was possible to somehow suppress emotions in the form of a pill or shot like in the movie Equilibrium, I would take the pill or the shot. Just my opinion.
ST libertarian sez: smiling is a privilege, not a right.
state regulation of smiling?
OK by WC.
"Sense offenders"
Please note. I said I don't like it either, and that was not my message.
I have to ask again. Are you RandomPropaganda?
WH...
You have lost it.
Are you drinking?
Smoking?
Shooting?
James Harden must feel lucky he doesn't live in jersey nor play there tbh
Then ditch the nanny-state biometric , tbh....
The states' rights principle does not excuse abuses of power such as this, tbh....
ty biometrics software tbh...
Kawhi Leonard doesn't see what the fuss is about this........
who's the commie liberal governor that would allow this?
thanks to Obama, I cain't even smile for a picture without getting arrested
How big of a problem is it really? There's only like 27 people in Jersey who have something to smile about.
Why can't the guy operating the bio machine tell the person to smile like they did on the ID instead of restricting people's rights?
Because they're "sense offenders" and are not allowed to smile, express any emotions or feelings, and can't own books, paintings, and any other types of art.
Don't they have better time to spend than wasting their time with this
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