The NYPD’s high-tech fingerprint database was temporarily brought down by a bumbling contractor with a virus-infected mini computer, The Post has learned. A contractor was setting up a digital display ...

WASHINGTON — More than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has failed to create a unified U.S. fingerprint database because of agency infighting, meaning most visitors to ...

Data provided to the US cannot be provided to a third party without the consent of New Zealand. Photo / Thinkstock New Zealand police will provide United States authorities with legal access to New ...

Let your fingers do the work that's the plan some lawmakers have drawn up in efforts to make society safer through a national fingerprint database. Liu Litao, 10th National People's Congress (NPC) ...

On Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003, police arrested 69-year-old Gerald F. Mason for the murder of two El Segundo, Calif., patrolmen. In 1957. The breakthrough came more than 45 years after the case was ...

An IT contractor accidentally took down the New York Police Department's high-tech fingerprint database for several hours with a virus-infected mini computer. A contractor was setting up a digital ...

The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over the last three decades, 137 wrongly convicted people were exonerated through DNA database “hits,” which ...