Why would we want to sign a petition against this? What's wrong with the DMV using facial recognition? If you want to follow your cause, sell us on why!
Don't presume facial recognition data remain confined in a DMV database. It's going to get spread around promiscuously. Don't delude yourselves that there will be any enforceable segregation whatsoever of sensitive personal identifying information.
Case in point:
The government uses facial recognition to track you through surveillance cameras.
One doesn't have an option of keeping his photo out of the government database. You can't live in modern society without picture ID.
There is not a word or so much as a whisper to be found in motor vehicle department published policies of the states in regard to segregating or protecting identifying information in the photographic form. Your photograph is identifying information. You would be alarmed if your social security number were made available, but no one here thinks releasing photographs poses any risk.
Once the government has the recognition file and tracks you through surveillance cameras, you turn into just another lemming.
Yes, you're lemmings. Big brother is watching you.
