smile<\/a> for your driver\u2019s license picture. It seems that smiling throws off facial recognition technology used to detect fraudulent licenses. Residents in these states will have to display \u201cneutral facial expressions.\u201d<\/p>\nSo smiling heightens individuality? Being happy would foil surveillance technology that some Big Brother might use to keep track of us? There may be something telling here, though I\u2019m not sure what it is.
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