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 ...

Michael Ransom, a fingerprint specialist for Michigan State Police, created the Vulnerable or Impaired Person Program after his son was mistakenly sent home on a school bus eight years ago. "My son is ...

The Homeland Security Department began this week testing a fingerprint scanning application in certain airports so it can tap into an FBI database to identify more accurately whether visiting ...

From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking options ...

The man was pulled over for a traffic violation, but when police ran the name he gave – Perry Langley – they found he had two warrants and arrested him. It was only after they scanned the man’s ...

That joke might seem like a bad one, but it kinda fits when we talk of fingerprint scanners on smartphones. They started from the bottom after all, and now seem to have reached their home (or so we ...

A fingerprint scanner is a small electronic device that guards your computer from intruders. You place your fingertip on the reader; it scans your fingerprint and compares it to the prints stored in ...

With his young son’s birthday coming up in a few weeks, [Mike Buss] wanted to build him something fun that the boy could hold on to all his life. After doing some sketching, [Mike] arrived at the idea ...

Even as Appleannounced Touch ID, a fingerprint-scanning feature, on the iPhone 5S, concerns over privacy and identity tracking began to take shape. In the wake of news that the U.S. government is ...

One of the big new feature announcements with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone was the all new 'in-display' fingerprint scanner for the S10 and S10+ models. It wasn't just the ...