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Re:Man accused of teaching people to beat lie detector tests... by wavefunction on Sunday September 01, 2013 @01:10AM (#6309226)
Well, that's the thing, I don't think (to my knowledge, basically) that they even track such things. Finger-print analysis isn't even standardized, apparently.

Brandon Mayfield is one example of a high-level failure in such analysis. He was implicated in the Madrid bombings by a finger-print and thus faced serious international terrorism charges despite being completely innocent.

Here's an article that touches on some of the issues, and also mentions some of Brandon Mayfield's experience:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-4069140.html

A finger-print analyst in the linked article claims 98% efficacy, though there is no data to back up that number. With no standards and no apparent statistics to back up their successes and failures.

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