8-Day Blog Post: Cycle 5 Passports

On CNN, there was an article regarding eyeglasses in Passport photos. Starting very soon, the government will require people to remove their glasses in order to take their picture for their Passport. Officials have claimed that it will help make Passport photos have more "consistency," but there is a conspiracy and controversy that it will make it easier for the government to improve their photo recognition and tracking of people through photos and identification like Passports and IDs. In 2017 there will be no more glasses in Passport photos, but whether it's to make the spectrum of photos more consistent, or to make it easier for the government to use facial recognition to track us, is still being debated.