Are Fingerprints the Best Form of ID?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Biometrics are being used everywhere to recognise us. On this edition of CrowdScience we try out the tech that tells us apart. We find out just how unique our irises are and meet a man who can pick people out from a crowd of thousands just by analysing the way they walk.
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Presenter: Anand Jagatia Producer: Marijke Peters
(Image: Fingerprints being looked at under a magnifying glass. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:29.1 | Sounds. Is that where we're going? |
| 0:35.0 | Is that where we're going? |
| 0:37.0 | Police station? |
| 0:38.0 | Right so. |
| 0:40.0 | Why are you taking us here? |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, you're listening to the Crowd Science Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:46.0 | He's a bit nervous. |
| 0:50.0 | My producer Moraker and I have been taken into custody. |
| 0:57.0 | I don't think I've ever been inside a police station. |
| 1:00.0 | Which way do you want to go in? |
| 1:02.0 | Have they got a back entrance? |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Anand. |
| 1:09.0 | Can I take your surname please? |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, it's Jagatier, J-A-G-A-T-I-A. |
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