Your fingerprint means a lot of things. It is your gateway to identifying yourself to some of the world's most venerable institutions. Its assumed uniqueness assures people that you are the owner of the print and nobody else. It is interesting to note that despite the presence of signatures, which can be easily forged anyway, fingerprints remain to be one of the most used forms of identification for a lot of official documents.
I do not see other biometric technologies booming in the coming years, either, because of the fingerprints' accessibility and affordability. I can only see digital retina and face recognizers being place in ultra-secure and hi-tech installations where security is a must. But for documents, fingerprints will not go away.
Aside from documents, they also prove to be very useful in forensics. Before DNA testing was introduced, fingerprint detection was the main forensic measurement procedure. But that's beside the point. We're talking about document identification here.
In your office, how much do you use fingerprints for your purposes? Do you rely only on signatures, or do you use fingerprints at times? Where do you get your fingerprint pad ink?
I just have one question lingering in my mind, when a person cannot write or put in fingerprints due to, probably, the loss of limbs, what is the next identification measure?
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