Police Scotland said electronic fingerprint machines were being introduced to Lerwick in Shetland, Stornoway in the Western Isles and Kirkwall in Orkney. Custody centres in Invern ...

A victim might not care if a murderer is a smoker or a vegetarian. But having such knowledge could help police solve a case. Details like this could one day be at their fingertips if a new ...

Four years after scuttling a study into the reliability of fingerprinting, the research arm of the Justice Department is seeking answers to fundamental questions about the grandfather of forensic ...

Fingerprint recognition and enhancement remain at the forefront of biometric research, addressing the persistent challenges in reliably identifying individuals from often degraded or latent prints.

A federal judge who stunned the legal community earlier this year by forbidding the use of a fingerprint expert’s opinion in a Philadelphia murder trial reversed his decision Wednesday. Noting that a ...

Dust off the history of forensic science and you’ll find Henry Faulds, a Scottish physician who in the late 19th century discovered that powder could make the perspiration from fingertips visible, and ...

They're a pain to use, and they aren't secure when they are based on easy-to-guess digits, such as a birth date or street address. Many people don't bother using them on phones, even though that means ...

Not all firms that track consumers' browsing behavior by using advanced browser fingerprinting techniques fail to honor "Do Not Track" (DNT) flags or opt-out preferences. So said James Brentano, VP of ...

Malvertising campaigns have been discovered which utilise sophisticated "fingerprint" techniques to lead security researchers off the trail and only deliver payloads to legitimate victims.