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⚠️ Your Selfie Could Be Leaking Your Fingerprint (opens in new tab)

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You flash a peace sign ✌️ in a selfie. You post it. You forget about it. But that photo may have just exposed something you can never change — your fingerprint. How Is This Possible? Fingerprint ridges are physical structures. Under good lighting, with a high-resolution camera and fingers close to the lens, those ridges cast tiny shadows that appear in photos. AI image enhancement tools can then amplify that detail, extract the ridge pattern, and map the unique identifying points that biometr...

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