fingerprint
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They don’t prevent you from accidentally sharing personal information online, protect you from phishing links or stop you from being tracked through cookies and browser fingerprinting.
From Salon
The piano-black plastic material on the console and around door switches might actually be haunted; fingerprints appear mysteriously overnight.
The system uses machine learning to analyze millions of immune-cell receptors—the molecular fingerprints left as the body responds to threats—and detect patterns linked to autoimmune activity.
It has also stopped its previous practice of recording a suspect’s place of birth during fingerprinting and uploading that info to an FBI database, which immigration authorities can access.
From Los Angeles Times
Radio waves can even "fingerprint" the details of a room.
From BBC
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