The real ID act created a data sharing system between all the states of everything encoded on your driver's license, including picture. the picture is then fed

The real ID act created a data sharing system between all the states of everything encoded on your driver's license, including picture. the picture is then fed into facial recognition software which is used in a variety of places. A while back a Chinese national was working with a dataset in an opaque federal "fusion center" before abruptly quitting and flying home to China, woops https://www.propublica.org/article/lizhong-fan https://www.propublica.org/article/lizhong-fan