No More Peace – researchers say fingerprints can be stolen from selfies

You better think twice before you flash a peace sign in a photo again, someone might be stealing your fingerprints! This may seem like a silly fear but Japan’s National Institute of Informatics believes that it is possible to do so and we should all be wary of the friendly hand gesture. With the amount of quality cameras available, just with our smartphones, and the sea of peace loving selfies, researchers were curious if they could lift the information on our finger tips from pictures.