Biometrics

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With neither thought nor caution, Kenneth Brody blurted:
> 
> And therein lies the science ("art"?) of biometrics.

Art is closer.

> How do you think the FBI does things?  You don't think that in today's
> world of computers, that they manually scan every fingerprint card for
> a match, do you?  (That's what they used to do in pre-computerized days.)
> Forty years ago, they came up with methods to categorize fingerprints,
> enter that data into the computer, narrow the field down to only a few
> possible hits, and then manually searched those few.  Over the decades,
> this technique has been refined to the point where the computer can now
> generate the biometric data itself, and narrow it down to either one or
> zero hits.

Yeah, and it worked so well recently:

     http://www.policeone.com/police-products/investigation/articles/87378/

I'd bet he never received even a mild apology, much less damages.

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