Product Feature: Biometrics Blends Time-Honored Tradition with Glimpses of the Future
The term “biometrics” conjures a host of futuristic images. To be certain, the science of identifying individuals based on their unique biological characteristics is a burgeoning field, and one that has long lent itself to flights of spy-movie fancy.
Still, while the field is becoming more intricate and sophisticated every year, a great deal of biometrics—particularly in the law enforcement community—remains fundamentally unchanged from the early 1890s when Scottish physician Henry Faulds developed a fingerprint classification system.1
