No smiling allowed when you get your drivers license picture taken in New Jersey. Really. Because the state says a nice big smile will throw off its face recognition software, they are banned. Look straight ahead, look glum, maybe you can crack a smile without being sent to the back of the line. No grinning.
The reason given is that it helps crack down on identity theft and what not:
"That could be someone trying to steal someone else's identity to get insurance benefits, or someone trying to get out of a DUI by getting a license under another name," said Mike Horan, spokesman for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. "This helps us weed out fraud."
And citizens just suppose your information was breeched and later you were told of this breech, just how fast do you think law enforcement or heaven forbid the state MVC is going to give you ALL the information you need to fight back? It's why they say they need this from you now but you'll wait forever to get this info if you become a victim if you're allowed to see it at all. Yeah. it's to help you.
So when you go for your renewal eat a few Lemonheads and have at because that'll be the first picture of you to hit the news should you run afoul of the laws of this here Garden State.
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