From "Law and Order" to "CSI," not to mention real life, investigators have used fingerprints as the gold standard for linking criminals to a crime. But if a perpetrator leaves prints from different fingers in two different crime scenes, these scenes are very difficult to link, and the trace can go cold.
  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    617·
    9 months ago

    Columbia Engineering senior Aniv Ray and Ph.D. student Judah Goldfeder, who helped analyze the data, noted that their results are just the beginning. “Just imagine how well this will perform once it’s trained on millions instead of thousands of fingerprints,” said Ray.

    Or we’re going to find out fingerprint analysis was junk science, just like hair analysis.

    We’ll still use it to convict people though.

    • WeeSheep@lemmy.world
      51·
      9 months ago

      There has been no science to back up fingerprints being unique enough to determine identity by. I’m not sure “going to find out” is quite the same as “has never been proven to be true.”