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Topic: fingerprint
Definition:

  • a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger
  • often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations a generic term for any identifying characteristic
  • "that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it" a smudge made by a (dirty) finger take an impression of a person's fingerprints

    Related tag cloud:

  • biometric
  • biometrics
  • identification
  • security
  • authentication
  • afis
  • fingerprint identification
  • empreintes digitales
  • access control
  • verification
  • fingerprints
  • recognition
  • iris
  • finger
  • scurit
  • software
  • fraud
  • time attendance
  • access
  • face recognition
  • biometrie
    • Resources:

    Network USA
    A list of sites dedicated to liberty, rights, and freedom issues. Includes the "Fight the Fingerprint", against identifying technologies.
    http://www.networkusa.org

    Finger Printing America
    Self-contained fingerprinting and identification kits.
    http://www.fingerprintamerica.com

    Southern California Association of Fingerprint Officers
    Website offers extensive information on fingerprint technology.
    http://www.scafo.org/

    FingerPrint USA
    Consulting and technical services in current fingerprint biometric technologies and the specification, development and acquisition of complex automated identification systems.
    http://www.fpusa.com/

    Biometrics Research at Michigan State University
    Research and publications of the PRIP (Pattern Recognition and Image Processing) lab in the use of fingerprints, hand geometry, face, voice, signature and palmprints as biometric indicators for person verification.
    http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu