Gone are the days when fingerprint scanners were limited to only the top-of-the-line smartphones. These days, phones priced as low as $100, come equipped with a fingerprint scanner to authenticate ...

A hardware sensor that can quickly read a person's unique pattern of ridges on their fingertip, to verify that person's identity. This is a type of biometric security. It can be used in place of a ...

We used to think of fingerprinting as simply placing your finger on an ink pad and then rolling it on paper to obtain an identifiable mark that would distinguish you from everyone else on the planet.