Lifestyle-Detecting Fingerprint Test May Soon Be Used in Courts
A member of the forensic section of the French police brushes a bottle to take fingerprints at a police station in Beauvais on November 21, 2013 Phillippe Huguena /AFP/Getty Images
Fingerprint technology, which can profile the lifestyle of suspects through trace chemicals could soon be used in British courts.
Eating habits, drug addictions, and personal grooming products such as hair gel all leave telltale molecules trapped in our fingerprints—which can stay there for decades.
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.