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It’s literally a mug shot, a photograph (shot) of your face (mug) for official record. For the express purpose of identification by a law enforcement agency, no
by tsuujin 4y ago
It’s literally a mug shot, a photograph (shot) of your face (mug) for official record. For the express purpose of identification by a law enforcement agency, no less.
- tedunangst 4y agoIt's kinda unusual to refer to one's drivers license photo as a mug shot nonironcially.
- killalllfaggots 4y ago[dead]
- UncleEntity 4y ago> Travelers who volunteer to use the new system are directed to insert their drivers license, ID card, or passport into the appropriate reader, stand on a marked spot in front of the webcam, and remove their face mask, so that the image from the ID (or, more likely, from some back-end image database linked to the ID, although that hasn’t been disclosed) and the image from the webcam can be compared by some undisclosed algorithm. So… mugshots.
- PraetorianGourd 4y agoRight in the most literal interpretation of the term, there is alignment. In other news, I can’t believe the yearbook committee wanted to take mugshots of my kid! As you can see, there is what something colloquially means, and what something literally means. But I know you know that