No Smiling for Passport Photos in Germany
Sep 15, 2005, 1:00 pm
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No Smiling for Passport Photos in Germany
No Smiling for Passport Photos in Germany
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...i084727D17.DTL
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...i084727D17.DTL
Germans were ordered Thursday to stay serious when having their photographs taken for new passports, wiping away any grins, smirks or smiles so that biometric scanners can pick up their facial features.
Interior Minister Otto Schily ordered passport authorities to only accept pictures taken from the front showing the "most neutral facial expression possible," starting Nov. 1.
Interior Minister Otto Schily ordered passport authorities to only accept pictures taken from the front showing the "most neutral facial expression possible," starting Nov. 1.
Sep 15, 2005, 7:44 pm
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Originally Posted by Teacher49
Easy way to fool the bio-metrics, then. Get your grim photo taken, then "let a smile be your umbrella" when walking near security cameras. They'll never recognize you. 
i once made a picture smiling in a passport, no one trusted me that this was me....
i had to smile like an idiot when i was 17...
after that i didnt smile anymore in my last passport, but made the mistake that my hairs were colored blond...
now in china everytime i try to go into the country, the officers there look 10 times at my hair ..
oh well... my passport is still valid until 2010.
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Sep 22, 2005, 7:36 pm
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LOL, that is stupid.
FYI, I didn't smile for my passport photo--but that's because they took it before I was ready, and wouldn't let me take it again! I have, like, a part of my tooth showing in the shot.
FYI, I didn't smile for my passport photo--but that's because they took it before I was ready, and wouldn't let me take it again! I have, like, a part of my tooth showing in the shot.
Sep 23, 2005, 10:33 am
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Originally Posted by Teacher49
Easy way to fool the bio-metrics, then. Get your grim photo taken, then "let a smile be your umbrella" when walking near security cameras. They'll never recognize you.
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Sep 23, 2005, 12:47 pm
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Otoh
Not to be too serious on FT, but if you are not smiling you will perhaps look more like your passport photo when they use the photo to ID your body in the morgue after. . .