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Your Fingerprints Now Can Be Stolen From Selfie Pictures?

Your Fingerprints Now Can Be Stolen From Selfie Pictures?

WASHINGTON — Your fingerprints might be a major threat to your privacy. That’s because the images taken by smartphone cameras are so full of detail that it is now possible to copy fingerprints from them, Professor Isao Echizen of Japan’s ...

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Hours In Line And Then An ID And Fingerprint Scan — Just To BUY GROCERIES

Hours In Line And Then An ID And Fingerprint Scan — Just To BUY GROCERIES

Grocery shopping has become a nightmare for citizens in Venezuela, as consumers have to stand in line for hours to get into government-controlled markets, simply to buy small amounts of rationed goods on certain days. Citizens even have to use ...

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States Now Demanding Fingerprints From (Pretty Much) Every Adult

States Now Demanding Fingerprints From (Pretty Much) Every Adult

Is taking a full set of fingerprints simply to garner a driver’s license legal? Government officials in Texas and a series of other states appear to think so. Since the 1960s Texas has required thumbprints for license renewals – index ...

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NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Wants To Fingerprint All 620,000 In Public Housing

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Wants To Fingerprint All 620,000 In Public Housing

Outgoing New York mayor and potential presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is proposing what many call yet another assault on individual freedoms and constitutional rights. The mayor proposed that all  620,000 people in public housing in New York City be fingerprinted ...

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