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Mei Ngan, Computer Scientist, NIST

Your mom told you not to get a tattoo. Now that magnificent body art could become a sort of biometric identifier for law enforcement. The National Institutes of...

Federal News Network Staff

June 16, 2015 9:40 am

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Your mom told you not to get a tattoo. Now that magnificent body art could become a sort of biometric identifier for law enforcement. The National Institutes of Standards and Technology and the FBI want to use tattoos to help identify people, be they suspects or victims of natural disasters. NIST shared some of the initial results of its research at a recent workshop. Mei Ngan is a computer scientist with NIST. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the identification efforts.