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Fingerprints

Ink Fingerprinting Kids to Provide Information in the Event of Crime

The Sheriff’s Office in Mount Airy, NC held a program at a local elementary school to collect children’s fingerprints in case of inconceivable circumstances. The event, where kids got to have ink fingerprinting done, hoped to provide important information for […]

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Fingerprinting Blunders Urge Oklahoma Investigators to Improve System

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation conducted fingerprint checks for people applying to work with troubled Oklahoma youth and adults, and 117 times the results were unreliable. This means that when OSBI cross-checked the fingerprints with criminal databases, no histories […]

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Preventing Hacking by Identifying Fake Fingers

The increased use of fingerprints for all types of security in America brings with it the threat of falsification. Impostors have created new ways to fake out fingerprint detectors, but US Intelligence agencies are working to develop technologies that will […]

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How One Artist Protests Demolition with Fingerprints

Korean artist Jazoo Yang protests forcible demolition in vulnerable areas of Motogol where inhabitants are being displaced by new real estate, and she uses fingerprints to demonstrate this. Yang speaks out against the disenfranchisement of, brutality towards, and exploitation of […]

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Italy to Introduce Fingerprinting, Processing Immigrants At Sea

To reduce tension between itself and other EU members who claim unregistered migrants travel through their countries, Italy is planning to fingerprint migrants at sea as soon as they reach Mediterranean rescue boats. This move essentially creates fingerprinting hotspots at […]

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