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Fingerprints

A fingerprint reader in action

This new 3-D printed glove can dupe fingerprint scanners

Technology

Designed to more accurately test fingerprint scanners, the glove is a boon for law enforcement — when it’s on the right hands.

FBI Director James Comey takes a question from a reporter during a news conference at the FBI field office in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 18, 2014.

How the FBI used ‘invalid, grossly exaggerated testimony’ for decades

Justice

Police facial-recognition scanners raise privacy concerns

Environment
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