The OPM breach exposed fingerprint records for about 5.6 million people.
Federal background-investigation records compromised → fingerprint records exposed → permanent biometric identifiers outside custodian control
EVIDENCE LIBRARY · BIOMETRICS
What happens when the identifier is part of your body?
Fingerprint, iris, voice and other biometric evidence, including false identification, consent disputes, workplace use and the consequences of treating biometric matches as uniquely authoritative.
The FBI called a fingerprint match '100%'—and arrested the wrong man.
AFIS candidate → examiner confirmation → investigation and detention → Spanish police identify the true source
A mistaken fingerprint identification helped send Stephan Cowans to prison for nearly six years.
Latent print testimony + eyewitness identification → conviction → DNA exclusion → fingerprint error exposed
Fingerprint experts said a crime-scene print belonged to police officer Shirley McKie. Independent review found it did not.
Fingerprint identification → officer disputes match → perjury charge → acquittal → independent experts reject identification
A 14-year-old was fingerprinted at Six Flags; his mother said she learned about it only after the school trip.
Season-pass enrollment → thumb scan and storage → no alleged written consent → landmark Illinois Supreme Court ruling
White Castle employees repeatedly scanned fingerprints to access computers and pay records.
Fingerprint authentication → repeated scans and third-party verification → Illinois Supreme Court says each unlawful scan/transmission can accrue separately