If you want to provide your identity, you may no longer need to press up against an ink pad.
The space that is starting to see some concerning real-world use applications is the growing area of "contactless fingerprints" technology.
Telos explained how it works toWIRED. One can use this tech to take a picture of an individual's hand with a small camera on their phone. The person's fingers can be scanned from 2 inches away by the camera.
Teslos, along with five other companies, won a U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology competition. The purpose of the contest was to see how fingerprints can be used by law enforcement.
The evaluation shows touchless fingerprints are ready for practical deployment, according to experts.
Privacy groups are worried about the use of such technology. Over the years, there have been issues with the use of facial recognition by law enforcement. Amazon was criticized by human rights organizations for selling its facial recognition technology. Studies show that such technologies are flawed and have high rates of giving false positives to people of color. These technologies can sometimes wrongly identify someone.
It will now be easy for law enforcement to gather and collect more data on the civilian population as a result of the new system of fingerprints. In a 2020 investigation, the outlet discovered that a technology that connects to phones was being used to target ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom.
The same problems persist even though contactless fingerprints seem to be less of an intrusion. It's easy for the state to scoop up your personal information.
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