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Biometrics for identification

Posted Apr 3, 2008 10:08 UTC (Thu) by ayeomans (subscriber, #1848)
In reply to: Biometrics for identification by mgh
Parent article: Biometrics for identification

> With the theft of fingerprints from a database the way is open for a criminal to leave
someone elses finger prints at a crime scene. 

Alternatively your lawyer could claim that one of a number of government agencies did it. And
they may not need to "steal" the data either.

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