The NYPD’s high-tech fingerprint database was temporarily brought down by a bumbling contractor with a virus-infected mini computer, The Post has learned. A contractor was setting up a digital display ...

Let your fingers do the work that's the plan some lawmakers have drawn up in efforts to make society safer through a national fingerprint database. Liu Litao, 10th National People's Congress (NPC) ...

The wider use of fingerprint scanning technology in recent years has made it easier than ever for law enforcement officials to share information about criminals and quickly compare a suspect’s ...

WASHINGTON — More than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has failed to create a unified U.S. fingerprint database because of agency infighting, meaning most visitors to ...

Disagreements between government agencies are hampering efforts to combine U.S. immigration and law enforcement fingerprint information, making it more difficult to prevent known terrorists and ...

Researchers have stumbled upon a publicly accessible biometric database that exposed more than a million people’s fingerprints, along with a wealth of other personal data. Cybersecurity experts Noam ...