{"id":219075,"date":"2026-05-23T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/a-selfie-with-the-v-hand-sign-exposes-fingerprints-to-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:18:00","slug":"a-selfie-with-the-v-hand-sign-exposes-fingerprints-to-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/a-selfie-with-the-v-hand-sign-exposes-fingerprints-to-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"A selfie with the V hand sign exposes fingerprints to artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apd.cat\/en\/data-protection\/a-selfie-with-the-v-hand-sign-exposes-fingerprints-to-artificial-intelligence_13246_102.html\">A selfie with the V hand sign exposes fingerprints to artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apd.cat\/en\/data-protection\/a-selfie-with-the-v-hand-sign-exposes-fingerprints-to-artificial-intelligence_13246_102.html\">https:\/\/www.apd.cat\/en\/data-protection\/a-selfie-with-the-v-hand-sign-exposes-fingerprints-to-artificial-intelligence_13246_102.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-23 07:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.apd.cat\">www.apd.cat<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence has the capability to extract fingerprints from high-resolution photographs of individuals posing with the V-sign, particularly showing the lower part of their fingers.<\/li>\n<li>This method relies heavily on the common selfie taking distances, typically between 1.5 and 2 meters, which provide ample quality for AI to reconstruct hand ridges.<\/li>\n<li>For fingerprint extraction to work, the hand must be oriented towards the camera with the lower part visible; otherwise, insufficient information is present.<\/li>\n<li>At specific distances like less than 1.5 meters, detail recovery is high, while between 1.5 and 3 meters the system obtains half the necessary information, and above three meters reliability declines.<\/li>\n<li>The process, which can yield fingerprints from two fingers if the image resolution is adequate, may compromise biometric security when combined with advanced editing tools and AI.<\/li>\n<li>The success of this biometric theft depends also on an attacker having access to the device intended for the unauthorized authentication, highlighting the dual vulnerabilities of proximity and device access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A selfie with the V hand sign exposes fingerprints to artificial intelligence https:\/\/www.apd.cat\/en\/data-protection\/a-selfie-with-the-v-hand-sign-exposes-fingerprints-to-artificial-intelligence_13246_102.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}