This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Of all the personal data that cybercriminals ...

Los Angeles Police Department fingerprint examiners who falsely implicated at least two people in crimes have been linked to nearly 1,000 other criminal cases that authorities say must now be reviewed ...

Rubin and Winton are Times staff writers. Late on the morning of April 14, 2006, a troubling letter rolled off the fax machine in the harried, disordered fingerprint unit of the Los Angeles Police ...

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 ...

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