Finger Print. Your Skin and Your Identity
摘要
It develops in the 16th week of pregnancy and remains unchanged throughout life. Politicians have argued to make it a feature of national or state identity cards. In addition to height, eye color, and a photo, the fingerprint, another biometric feature, would be included. But when did people actually know and use this forgery-proof individual feature as proof of identity? When was dactyloscopy, the science of finger print identification, recognized by science and jurisprudence as a method of personal identification?