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South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954 (lemmy.world)
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[-] mvuvi@baraza.africa 22 points 8 months ago

Galton introduced fingerprinting in South Africa as an experiment after Indians introduced it to him. Managing miners using fingerprints was one of those moments capitalism and colonialism converged on science and technology and shaped the global sector we now call identification.

For more, read The Biometric State by Keith Breckinridge.

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