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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.


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.




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