http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/15/D8CKPF7O0.html
Why am I not surprised???
Personally, I don’t think those faces are making things easy for the biometric standards software.
(doubtful that this character is too worried about biometrics)
This is one cooperative little dudette. I don’t know why her pupils are so small though.
Perhaps it was a very bright room?
Don’t laugh: it’s our fault they can’t smile. These “biometric passports” in Europe are being instituted under pressure from the USA.
It’s a silly idea anyway: if you want a picture with a neutral expression to aid in automatic face recognition, you don’t need to make that the main passport photo. You could just have the passport people take a neutral picture, extract feature data and store that separately on the passport, e.g. in a barcode. Then tell them to smile for the real photo.
Caj
Canada started the same thing in 2003:
On the other hand Germans don’t have anything to smile about these days anyway. Certainly the election this Sunday is not making anybody laugh..
Thanks Jgilder. I’ll go burn out my eyes now.
G’s that image made my stomach churn!
Not long now and it’ll be bar-code tattoos and chip-and-PIN implants. Very handy at border crossings and supermarket checkouts.
Caj is right. The same “no smiling” rule has been enforced in the UK as well just so we can have the biometric passports required by the US. So thanks a bunch for that, guys. 
We’re trying to get passports just now for our three kids, who now cannot travel on our passports for the same reason, and have just had one of the applications returned because the picture doesn’t meet the requirements. Apparently our daughter had the temerity to look very slightly to one side and smile a bit.
SHE IS THREE YEARS OLD!
For the love of God, has anyone tried to get a three year old to sit still and hold a neutral expression long enough to take a picture!!! Honestly - I despair!!! What planet do the jumped up wee bureaucrats who come up with this bollogs come from?!? Have they got nothing better to do with their time than invent stupid little rules like this that do nothng except make our lives just that little bit harder?!?!
I’m going to have to go and have a lie down now.
So, does this mean that to defeat the facial recog software all I have to do is smile and perhaps whistle a tune whilst committing my crimes?
Your handy guide to defeating facial recognition software;
UK Passport Agency Photograph Guidelines (you’ll need Acrobat or a PDF viewer to read it).
Goodness, with babies they emphasize that you aren’t supposed to see the parents hands in the photo. I mean, what are people supposed to do with their babies? Toss them in the air and hope they look at the camera? I have never heard of anything so ridiculous.
I don’t think it would be suspicious at all if you were walking through the air port looking like this
Just think there may come a time when a third grade reading and decision ability are coupled with overdeveloped biceps and a crewcut to detain travelers in a little room with no windows to angrily charge them with “You were making faces at our security cameras. That’s a serious crime!”
Sheesh controll yer kid whydoncha?! 
Oh! I’ve seen these!
That’s the new “Doobie-Baked Barbie” King sized bag of Doritos sold separately!
Tell me about it. And all this just to keep the US government happy.
What is the point of a photograph of a baby? They all look like small Winston Churchills anyway.
It’s a good job we decided against giving any of 'em the middle name “Terrorist”, that’s all I can say. Mind you, I bet we don’t have anywhere near as much trouble as this bloke.
And just think, after the “wall to wall conference” they give you, you’ll be denied entry due to your swollen mug!
What about those late night infomercial folks who lose 50 lbs. in two days?
Do they need constant photo updates as their weight and appearence fluctuate?