App-based car companies Uber and Lyft have stopped services in Austin, TX after residents rejected the companies’ efforts to change ride-sharing rules. The city of Austin established regulations last year requiring drivers to undergo fingerprinting-based background checks and prohibiting drivers […]
Princeton University researchers conducted an online tracker study revealing a new technique, called audio fingerprinting, that removes the privacy of Internet users through their computers’ audio stacks. This technique uses a software, Audio Context API, that fingerprints a device by […]
The amendment to the Barbados Immigration Bill 2016, which requires all people entering or leaving the country to undergo fingerprinting, is being hotly debated between government officials and activist attorneys. The Immigration Department’s new fingerprint requirement was to take place […]
The Sheriff’s Department in Franklin County, New York won $10,000 to update the county jail’s fingerprinting process. The state has spent over $1 million this year to replace or upgrade outdated fingerprint technology, which is an integral part of the […]
Imaging company Siemens and Case Western Reserve University professors have teamed up to develop MRI technology that will produce images as distinguishable to a physician as a fingerprint is to a forensic scientist. This new software, known as magnetic resonance […]