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Originally Posted by IlovemyAKA
I learned that AR is one of 4 states to ban smiling in id photos. Facial recognition software has difficulty matching two photos of the same person if the expressions differ. It's supposed to help combat identity theft and fraud.
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To this, I was travelling internationally recently, and when they had us go through customs, we could not smile as we walked through. I was looking for cameras, because I thought it may have something to do with this.
I just renewed my passport this year. I smiled in my photo too. :shrugging:
Yesterday, I learned that diasporic studies is a tradition of discourse that has been around for almost forty years in relation to African American Studies. I was not aware that the tradition was that deep.