June 2003
Fingerprinting's finger-pointing past
How fingerprinting made its mark.
By Lisa Scanlon
While face recognition software, iris scanning, and other identification technologies have been capturing headlines as promising new authentication and security tools, fingerprint records, arguably the first biometric databases, go back more than a hundred years. The idea of using fingerprints for identification was startlingly novel in its time-and caused a bitter dispute between two men who claimed to have invented the technology.
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