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Comment by monksy

18 hours ago

Absolutely not. That is legitimately beyond insane.

Fingerprints are used for investigating crimes. Giving them the access to this information before hand puts you as being investigated everytime they find a fingerprint at a crime scene.

They haven’t seen those movies.

Imagine someone wanting to frame someone for a crime and using their publicly available fingerprint data to manufacture gloves that reproduce that fingerprint.

Also, the science behind fingerprints is not particularly solid. Fingerprint experts can sometimes disagree on whether a particular print matches or not and even then, it hasn't been proven that fingerprints are unique - it's just likely to be so.