Put Your Fingerprints on This Bay Area Event
If you’ve been reading Sue Russell’s series of stories on wrongful convictions – and you live in the…
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Why Fingerprints Aren’t the Proof We Thought They Were
Fingerprint matching is a vital investigative tool. But despite its legendary aura of infallibility, courtroom claims of fingerprints’ uniqueness are slowly receding.
Bias and the Big Fingerprint Dust-Up
Cognitive neuroscientist Itiel Dror finds that analysis of fingerprint data by human examiners can be ruined by unintentional bias. But he offers some relatively simple fixes that can improve the odds of reliable results.