What is Fingerprinting

One of the critical features of automated biometric recognition applications is that, unlike traditional security systems, they do not solely rely on memory or knowledge-based features like passwords and thus provide protection and identification of an enhanced form. Bio-metric recognition systems instead weigh on pattern matching. They collect biological data from an individual using sensors and match the extracted discriminatory features from the input received with the already existing data in the system. Unique identification projects do not solely pose a danger from the side of the government authorities alone, and private players have also entered the game of misusing sensitive information of the users. It would thus not be wrong to state that privacy has indeed become a commodity to be sold off for monetary gains. However, the concept of “privacy” is a contentious domain, and debates pertaining to its scope continue.