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Research by a team at Japan's National Institute of Informatics (NII) says so, raising alarm bells over the popular two-fingered pose.
Fingerprint recognition technology is becoming widely available to verify identities, such as when logging on to smartphones, tablets and laptop computers.
But the proliferation of mobile devices with high quality cameras and social media sites where photographs can be easily posted is raising risk of personal information being leaked., report said.
The NII researchers were able to copy finger prints based on photos taken by a digital camera three meters away (nine feet) from the subject.
"Just by casually making apeace sign in front of the camera, fingerprints can become widely available," NII reseracher Isao Echizen told the Sankei Shimbun newspaper for an article published monday.
"Finger print data can be recreated if fingerprints are in focus with strong lighting in a picture," Echizen also told Yomiuri TV
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