The Governor has a lovely smile.
(Credit: State of New Jersey Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
New Jersey is a sprawling, cheery place.
It's a place whose buses carry the aspiring and the ambitious in excessive proximity, each one of them dreaming of a studio in Brooklyn.
It's a place with few great restaurants, but many people just happy to live their lives and not have to watch NBA games any more. Until they finally get that studio in Brooklyn, that is.
How odd, then, that New Jerseyites aren't allowed to express their inner contentment when they have their driver's license picture taken.
My lips turned tight with fury at the news from the Philadelphia Inquirer that New Jersey this year invested in facial recognition software.
You will be stunned into moving to northern Canada, when I tell you that this software requires humans to behave like robots.
Its small mind has no room for personal expression. It has no room for glee or even a smile of wryness. It doesn't even have room for a nostril flared in protest.
The Inquirer quoted Mike Horan, a spokesman for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission: "To get an accurate photo, you don't want an excessively expressive face in the photo."
His definition of accuracy is that of... [Read more]
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