Re: [FP] NHTSA - Digital Image Photo Licenses

[Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>]

At 12:01 PM 7/26/98 -0400, Robert A. Costner wrote:
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>The following is taken from today's SCAN newsletter.
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>7/26/98
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>Following is a brief excerpt from the -
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>"U.S. Department of Transportation"
>"National Highway Traffic Safety Administration"
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>"The Highway Safety Desk Book"
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>regarding digitized driver's license photos.

[snip]

>The implications for law enforcement go far beyond these obvious benefits.
>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.....

Oregon already has this.  (We seem to be an official beta test site for
every draconian measure or propaganda campaign they want to implement on a
national scale.)

The digital licensing program hear was VERY expensive and full of cost
over-runs.  If your state legislature tells you it can be done inexpensivly
or is a "cost cutting measure" they are lying their asses off.
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