Digital fingerprinting - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages... This study is based on research questions that will aim to examine the use of digital fingerprinting and such other techniques in crime control and crime investigation and how the methods of storage of digital fingerprints in databases could have an impact on the information accessibility in general. The study will draw on several questions and research objectives and analyze other similar research studies that have dealt with an explanation of digital fingerprinting, its storage and classification systems and its general use in gathering evidential information in forensic science (Kirby, 1990).
The study will use data from patents on equipment and methods used for digital fingerprinting and analysis and two such patents for fingerprinting techniques are analysed here.
The problem that is studied here includes the uses and applications of digital fingerprinting and the differences in equipment, classification and storage of fingerprints. It is also examined how these issues affect accessibility to information and especially crime related investigation.
The objectives of this research project would be to investigate and link the relations between digital fingerprinting techniques, data storage and classification and the accessibility to evidential information using equipment or patented technology (Kirby 1990, Lofyenberg 2001). The objective is to study the relation between technology and crime and criminal evidence, the use and application of digital fingerprinting, how these are accessed, stored and classified, what classification techniques are appropriate and how the entire process benefits the forensic sciences, especially in matters of criminal evidence and investigation. ...Download file to see next pagesRead More