A Japanese researcher, Tsutomu Matsumoto, recently presented a study at an International Telecommunications Union’s Workshop on Security in Seoul, Korea, which demonstrated how a fingerprint reader can be fooled around 80% of the time by a fake print, created with gelatin and using prints lifted from a suitable surface, such as glass.
An American technology expert [...]

Fingerprinting is a method that has long been used by the authorities and other organisations as a means of identification.
The appeal of fingerprinting is that it is an easy system to operate, is used widely around the globe and can 100% accurately identify an individual (contrary to popular opinion, fingerprints are not completely and utterly [...]