Photo: Determining the identity of the owners of latent prints is often key to crime scene research, such as the owner of this latent printed pulled from a fingernail file. A NIST test shows that ...

The Homeland Security Department began this week testing a fingerprint scanning application in certain airports so it can tap into an FBI database to identify more accurately whether visiting ...

Declaring that "fingerprints do not lie," Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that the Immigration and Naturalization Service will use electronic fingerprint scanners later this summer to check ...

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M Cogent announced today that the Improvision NPS2, the company’s new high-speed duplex scanner, tested in full compliance and received certification from the ...

The Internal Revenue Service has ordered 52 Cross Match digital fingerprinting systems from Cross Match Technologies, to use in conducting fingerprint-based background checks on employees and ...

The integration of fingerprint databases has fallen behind schedule, creating continued risks to national security, according to a Justice Department Inspector General report released last month. For ...

IAFIS consists of three basic integrated segments: the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), the Interstate Identification Index (III) and Identification Tasking and Networking (ITN).

The FBI’s Clarksburg division has launched a new biometric identification system that officials say is already helping law enforcement officials around the country identify suspects faster and more ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology scientist with a passion for ultrasound is applying his medical imaging know-how to help a Buffalo-based company fine-tune its unique fingerprinting-identification ...

WEBVTT TROOPER TOM HICKEN TRAVELS WITH A LOT OF TECHNOLOG A SCANNER, RADIO, AND COMPUTER. BUT WITH THIS SMALL DEVICE CALLED A MOBILE AFIS, HE HAS INSTANT IDENTIFICATION AT HI FINGERTIPS. 22 TO 30 ...

LOS ANGELES, BEIJING and PUNE, India, October 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- According to QY Research's newly published report titled, "Global Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) Market ...

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Department in Washington state has selected a full-hand scanner from Cross Match Technologies Inc. to improve its criminal booking system, according to David Bales, ...