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Record 1 2006-06-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Protection of Life
CONT

Historically, there has been no interoperability between the Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems manufactured worldwide. This changed in 2000 when the ANSI-NIST standard was adopted worldwide for the exchange of fingerprints, palm prints, photographs, scars mark and tattoos.

OBS

ANSI: American National Standards Institute; NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des personnes
CONT

De tout temps, il n'y a eu aucune interopérabilité entre les systèmes automatisés d'identification dactyloscopique, produits partout dans le monde. Cette situation a changé en 2000, lorsque la norme ANSI-NIST a été adoptée mondialement pour l'échange d'empreintes digitales, d'empreintes des paumes, de photographies, de cicatrices, de marques distinctives et de tatouages.

Spanish

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