Texas Dept. Of Public Safety Quietly Starts Demanding Full Set Of Prints From Drivers License Applic

[n2doc]

The Texas Dept. of Public Safety has apparently decided that if you'd like to be allowed to drive a vehicle in the state, you'd also perfectly fine with a criminal booking-style fingerprinting and having those immediately uploaded to a criminal database (that reps swear isn't a criminal database).

For years, Texas has only required a thumbprint as a minor security measure when obtaining a driver's license or ID card. That has now changed. It's unclear exactly when this went into effect (the Texas DPS made no announcement of this policy change), but longtime Dallas Morning News consumer affairs columnist, Dave Lieber, experienced it firsthand back in June.

The other day at the Texas driver’s license center, while paying for my required in-person renewal, the clerk said it was time to take my fingerprints.

What?

Really. Quietly, earlier this year, the Texas Department of Public Safety began requiring full sets of fingerprints from everyone who obtains a new driver’s license or photo identification card. This applies to those who come in as required for periodic renewals, but it doesn’t apply to mail-in renewals.

Not only that, but since 2010, Texas law enforcement has been running facial recognition searches on DPS license photos with its Image Verification System.

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Texas- So Free!

[DetlefK]

1. The US has no middleground when it comes to ID.

In other countries, some form of government-regulated ID accompanies you from birth to grave. First there's the birth-certificate, then you get registered in the city-council as being a member of that family, and as an adult the birth-certificate is used to issue you a passport of some sort.

It seems to me, as a foreigner, that in the US you either have
* no ID
* several easily falsified forms of ID with limited and conflicting validation
* "all your data are belong to us"

[Historic NY]

2. Peoples Republic of Texas.

[FSogol]

3. Which will equal more unlicensed, uninsured drivers in Texas.

The Texas Department of Impeding Public Safety. Freedumb is on the March!