Automatic Fingerprint Identification System Purpose Fingerprinting

Automatic Fingerprint Identification System • • Purpose Fingerprinting Process Applications Cost Issues Future National ID Card

Purpose • Verification • Identification

Fingerprints • • Friction ridges Pattern Types Minutiae Uniqueness

Pattern Types

Minutiae

Fingerprint Matching Process

Fingerprint Matching Process • Map vs. Photograph • Image Clarity

Fingerprint Matching Process • • Manual matching Automated matching Hybrid solution Limiting the search

Fingerprint Matching Process • • False Positives False Negatives Fraud vs. Denial of Service Two fingerprints

Applications • • • Voter registration Driver’s licensing Welfare fraud prevention Check cashing ATM transactions

Applications • • Mc. Donald’s HEB Supermarkets Citibank Nevada Casinos Levitz Furniture Kroger Supermarkets Notaries

Applications • • Texas California Florida Georgia

Cost • Less costly than other biometric technologies • Less invasive than other biometric technologies

Issues - Pro • Decrease in false identifications • Protect privacy • Reduce identity theft

Issues - Con • • Intimidation of lower-income people Abuse of fingerprint database Texas law Not copy proof

Future • • • More widespread use in on the way Government Health care Finance Schools May lead to more sophisticated technologies

National Id Cards • • • Hong Kong Identity card with digital thumbprint Amount of information Malaysia Brunei United States