Their use as evidence has been challenged by academics, judges and the 
  media. There are no uniform standards for point-counting methods, and 
  academics have argued that the error rate in matching fingerprints has 
  not been adequately studied and that fingerprint evidence has no secure 
  statistical foundation. Research has been conducted into whether experts 
  can objectively focus on feature information in fingerprints without 
  being misled by extraneous information, such as context.