3 ms·
Its easier for someone to obtain and identify your DNA than it is your fingertips or even your face. Just think of how much you leave around all the time. If t
by bilekas 4y ago
Its easier for someone to obtain and identify your DNA than it is your fingertips or even your face.
Just think of how much you leave around all the time. If that's all on records with facial images, your face is certainly an identifiable metric of your biology.
- rolph 4y agothe shift from paper to digital, has ironicly, removed a method of obtaining samples. its amazing what you can find with HPLC and a gas chromatograph.
- Msurrow 4y agoObtain perhaps, but identify no. Identification requires a database of samples to match against. Way more FP and FI databases than DNA databases, so not much to use as a gallery for identification..
- super256 4y ago> Obtain perhaps, but identify no. Identification requires a database of samples to match against. Those databases already exists (just look at the MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, 23andMe etc companies). Furthermore, DNA has the advantage, that you can find someone via relatives. The person to be identified doesn't have to be in the database. It's sufficient if his brother or father is in that db. Afaik this is not the case for fingerprints.
- LarryMullins 4y ago> Afaik this is not the case for fingerprints. Generally correct, but it's interesting that identical twins have similar but distinct fingerprints. The exact prints are different, but they tend to have the same broader patterns of print.
- Msurrow 4y agoFair point about those existing DNA databases, however I still think there is a sigbificant difference between “opt-in” databases, like MyHeritage, and the FP/FI databases in scope here (the OP) where its law mandated registration in case of travel (Schengen) or asylum, visa etc. There are a lot of the latter, and its not exactly opt-in or delete on request