America's FBI and its Customs Enforcement agency "have turned state driver license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through hundreds of millions of Americans' photos without their knowledge or consent," reports the Washington Post.They cite thousands of newly-released facial-recognition requests, internal documents, and emails from the last five years, revealed after a public-records request from researchers at Georgetown University, saying state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) databases have been transformed into "the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure."The Post concludes that the newly-released documents "show that the technology already is tightly woven into the fabric of modern law enforcement."A senior counsel at the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight tells their reporter that "It's really a surveillance-first, ask-permission-later system. People think this is something coming way off in the future, but these (facial-recognition) searches are happening very frequently today."