应用指纹作为身份识别的其他途径有:护照、身份证等证明文件(此类应用通常都有法律根据),或者是在最近几年中作为进入计算机、门、保险箱等控制系统中身份认证的形态学或生物学统计方法。目前用于自动门禁系统的指纹记录或文件的合法性尚未明确。类似的数据库仅仅是建立在协议或一致同意的基础上。这些数据有可能用于大规模灾难受害者的个体识别或特殊计算机犯罪的调查中。 Other ways of using fingerprints as identification are passports, ID cards and other supporting documents (such applications are usually legally based), or in recent years as a form of authentication into control systems such as computers, doors, safes Learning or biological statistics. The legitimacy of fingerprints or documents currently used in automatic access control systems is not yet known. A similar database is based solely on agreement or consensus. These data are likely to be used in the investigation of individual identification of victims of large-scale disasters or special computer crimes.