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Re:FBI Child ID App by Silica6149 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @10:22AM (#32001423)
Did not know that! How easily can irises be identified in person, though? Has a handheld scanner been developed yet?

Fingerprints can also be left on objects, which can be helpful for tracking someone.

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Re:FBI Child ID App by Tade0 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @11:10AM (#32002142)
> Has a handheld scanner been developed yet?

Yes - I used one as far back as in 2010 on a science fair where we enrolled people to a research database.

A phone camera close-up should be enough in the right conditions, but additionally Samsung's Galaxy line used to include and iris scanner, which was just a near-infrared LED and a camera.

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Re:FBI Child ID App by x86_64Ubuntu on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:02PM (#32005330)
Yes, they were using them to catalog folks in Afghanistan

https://www.wired.com/2010/09/afghan-biometric-dragnet-could...

Of course, the Taliban were able to seize this collection of data.

https://theintercept.com/2021/08/17/afghanistan-taliban-mili...

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Re:FBI Child ID App by NullPrefix on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @10:57AM (#32001949)
Regular photo camera can take photos of irises
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