The National Firearms Act of 1934 put limits on gun ownership, and the amendments made to it in 1986 impose stricter rules on gun owners, including widening the pool of regulated firearms and requiring owners to be fingerprinted and photographed. […]
As Uber and Lyft protest fingerprinting requirements for their drivers in cities like Austin and Houston, there is a host of other interesting careers that require applicants to undergo fingerprint background checks. While the app-based driving companies claim name-based background […]
Innovators in Japan hope to execute a revolutionary idea before the 2020 Olympics: replacing credit cards and cash with fingerprints! The new system will be able to determine a person’s spending money via their fingerprint, and will conveniently require only […]
In a move to prevent Uber and Lyft drivers from duping customers with false names and faking clean driving records, the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association is pressing legislators to require drivers to undergo fingerprinting. Using fingerprint background checks can […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that government researchers are collaborating with the FBI to develop a technology that will track people by their tattoos. Similar to the FBI’s mobile biometric methods of tracking people by digital fingerprinting or iris […]