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New border and surveillance technologies are being lauded for their accuracy and fairness. But how ethical can forced identification be? Late nineteenth-century enthusiasts of pinning down the ‘born criminal’ enlisted scientific advances to sinister ends. Might biometric data processing that registers migrants entering the EU risk a similar transgression of human rights today?

The archive, saved from a garage, shows pioneer of forensic science Edmond Locard at work in his laboratory in Lyon, France. The archive, saved from a garage, shows pioneer of forensic science Edmond Locard at work in his laboratory in Lyon, France.

“Paris Police 1905” is the sequel to “Paris Police 1900” and almost as juicy. Like the original series, many of the characters are based on real people.

Hannah Fry tells the incredible stories of how everyday objects were brought into being.

Much to the public’s glee, former President Donald Trump’s mug shot is in circulation.

Edmund Locard, the 'father of forensics', was also a sort of French Sherlock Holmes as well as a fan of the literary detective...

If you look very closely at Donald Trump’s mug shot, you can see the fear in his bloodshot eyes.

Zach Helfand offers a tongue-and-cheek analysis of the mug shot of Donald Trump taken in light of the Georgia RICO case.

The former president finally gets his close-up | World News

Farewell to London’s Le Gavroche, India Club, Banner’s and countless others that have hosted family celebrations down the decades