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Re:The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints by dbxz on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:29PM (#17087286)
People rely on fingerprints to provide proof of identity. But there's not really that much variation in fingers, and fingerprints have a high false positive rate. Fingerprints are going to go the way of the polygraph, and get banned from court.
Re:The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints by bradknowles on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:36AM (#17088756)
Yeah, the author of the article makes some absolute statements that might have been believed a few years ago, but which no longer hold any scientific validity.

Which makes me question the whole thing, to be honest.