subject: Fingerprints Are A Sure Fire And Inexpensive Way Of Assuring Identity [print this page] Identity is an absolute thing but as we all know it is quite often forged or stolen. So just because someone is in possession of a drivers licence does not necessarily mean that the name is correct. It is only by checking with a central registry that one can establish that the Drivers License has in fact been issued and even then we cannot be sure that the person it was issued to is in fact the current carrier.
Social Security numbers are equally wide open for abuse. And then of course we all read of stories of identities being stolen on line and banking accounts cleaned out. There has to be a better way of assuring ourselves that the person presenting themselves to cash a check or presenting a passport to enter the country is in fact the person they say they are.
On the wake of the terrorist attack on the United States (9 11) a great deal of thought and many measures have been and are being developed. There are many things that make each of us unique and thus could be used as identity markers. The most useful however are DNA, Retina scans and fingerprints are the most useful. Some of these biometric markers, such as DNA tests are still expensive and take a long time to be authenticated, Eye scans are steadily being introduced in high security installations such as the Pentagon but are still far from being universal but fingerprints are possible and are being used in more and more cases.
It should be noted that the development and introduction of biometric passports will use the retinal scan as well as the fingerprint to authenticate the carrier.
Fingerprints were originally used in the detection of crime and if anyone in the US was arrested for a felony their fingerprints were taken. With a huge centralized data base this fingerprint data is truly useful for crime detection as it is accessible throughout the US. Because of the stigma many law abiding citizens have resisted going to a police station to get fingerprinted for the growing number of requirements there are.
Nowadays some high security access controls use a fingerprint reader and so the initial fingerprint has to be taken and registered. In addition New York has some fingerprinting requirements as well as applications for passports, gaming licences, public transport and even access to colleges or the need to be fingerprinted before on can sit on a board of directors of a company. Many professional licenses require fingerprints as a part of the application.
fingerprints in NY are versatile and can provide ink and live scan fingerprint services for businesses and individuals. The greater NY metropolitan area including parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, upstate New York, and Pennsylvania are serviced
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Our fingerprints satisfy the requirements for:
FINRA
ABA
NMLS
Out of state licenses and many others.
We make the process easy by opening daily until late at convenient office locations, in midtown Manhattan and in Kings Park, New York, Long Island. If requested a mobile laboratory can be brought to a company's location so as to cover the needs of getting multiple staff members fingerprinted at once.
