Comments on: The emergent chaos of fingerprinting at airports

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Debt Settlement Help — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:24:15 +0000

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By: enlargement

enlargement — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:14:42 +0000

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By: Dean Loomis

Dean Loomis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:31:43 +0000

Why do they want your fingerprints? Because they think they can use them to distinguish you from other people. But they dare not actually test if this is true.
Elementary molecular studies have shown that Africans have the greatest genetic diversity while Asians are much more genetically uniform, while “Caucasians” range somewhere in the middle. Is this lack of diversity also apparent in fingerprints? One or two studies with small samples have suggested that this may be true.
But the studies that security agencies rely on to prove that fingerprints can actually distinguish among individuals have been based on populations that are not controlled for genetic or even “ethnic” diversity. They use populations of U.S. criminals, or Englishmen, or even whoever they could find in the building where the biometric product was developed. Attempts to normalize against any defined target population are exceedingly rare, and normalization against the global population needed for a transportation security agency charged with protecting international borders, or needed by the security group of a multinational corporation, are nonexistent as far as I’ve been able to discover.
The math is similar to the math used for cryptographically analyzing the likelihood of collisions in hash algorithms, with the developmental process that leads from each embryo’s genetic endowment to the fully differentiated fingerprints that each of use are born with functioning as the hashing algorithm. If the algorithm doesn’t produce very much randomization, as the data suggest, how many runs does it take before collisions occur and erroneous matches between fingerprint signatures and identities will occur, leading to arrests of innocent people for traveling with improper credentials?