Investigators were likely seeking to bring facial recognition analysis to bear on the video to produce a composite image of a suspect that they can run against a national database that includes all U.S. drivers with RealID licenses, according to a former FBI agent. [More]
Assuming you want to fly anywhere or need to access any federal facilities, that’s a requirement. Kinda like a mark…
Add the Eye of Sauron and you people had best behave yourselves.
Just like the Founders intended, right there clear as day over in article/section… uh… gimme a minute…
[Via JG]
The all encompassing federal image/bio/etc. data bank fits the tech bro Larry Ellison’s mantra that we’ll all behave ourselves if we know we’re under constant surveillance. Noting that AI is being sold as the salvation of mankind via rapid expansion of knowledge, I’ll suggest its ultimate predominant use will be that constant surveillance regime.
“At least two purported ransom notes have surfaced since Nancy Guthrie vanished, both of them delivered initially to news media outlets and setting two deadlines that have since lapsed. But no proof of life is known to have surfaced following her abduction.”
Whoever could have predicted that making a huge national whoop about this abduction and its mysterious total lack of ransom requests would result in the sudden appearance of a surfeit of phony ransom requests?