NY City Police Want Access To All State Resident Driver's License Pictures

[WhatInThe]

The New York City Police want easy and/or permanent access to all NY State drivers license pictures to run facial recognition software. Brings up privacy and legal issues.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facial-recognition-could-move-beyond-mug-shots-1522855817

Also could create another data base or avenue for hackers. This a local/city police department, not a federal or state agency.

 

[Aunt Bea]

If they hurry they can probably buy the same information from facebook! nthego:

 

[HipGnosis]

The NYC police honor the state drivers licenses, so they are already connected. Police have long used DMV data for vehicle registrations and addresses.
I have no problem with this proposal. Our government agencies need to work together for better efficiency.
It's no more a privacy issue than speed and/or red-light cameras.
Driving is a privilage. No one is forced to go to the DMV for the license pic.

Accessing a database is very different from creating another one.

 

[SifuPhil]

... This a local/city police department, not a federal or state agency.

A city police department with 40,000 active members.

I think that would put them above many state/federal agencies.

Personally I don't have a problem with it.

 

[moviequeen1]

I'm curious, would this include someone like myself who has a non-driver's license? Sue

 

[C'est Moi]

I have no problem with it; isn't that the point of having driver's license photos... so that police agencies can ID a person?

 

[Butterfly]

I don't have a problem with it, either. Police here have access to driver's licenses and vehicle registration info -- I don't now how they would do their jobs without it.

 

[WhatInThe]

I don't have a problem with it, either. Police here have access to driver's licenses and vehicle registration info -- I don't now how they would do their jobs without it.

I understand they need access but do they need their own database of the same information? Access to a database is different than building/maintaining their own.

To me it's just another database to be abused. Hopefully all current requests with the state require a procedure that documents who requested what. There are already issues with police abusing databases.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/across-us-police-officers-abuse-confidential-databases

It would become even easier to cover up abuse of information if someone didn't have to request another party for it through administrative procedure and/or database passwords etc.