The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have allegedly turned state driver’s license databases into a facial recognition database, scanning millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, says a news report. 

The public-records requests by Georgetown Law researchers revealed thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years, the reports ays. Although police have had access to fingerprints, DNA and other “biometric data” taken from criminal suspects, the DMV's database contain the photos of the majority of residents in states, most of whom have never been charged with a crime, making facial recognition into a powerful routine investigative tool, says the report.