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Criminal

May 28, 2005

A Century-Old Message: Fingerprint System Is Not Foolproof

Forum Column - By Simon Cole - It was recently reported that the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System made a catastrophic error by failing to match fingerprints taken from Jeremy Bryan Jones for a trespassing arrest in January 2004 outside Atlanta to his fingerprint record on file at the FBI.

        
        Forum Column
        
        By Simon Cole
        
        It was recently reported that the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification Syste...

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