Others tie it to Alphonse Bertillon. He was a record clerk for the police department in Paris when he discovered anthropometry (the use of body measurements to identify criminals) in the late 19th century. His theory included recording suspect's body movements and defects on their bodies, such as tattoos, warts, and scars. Both American and British police forces used this system, which came to be called Bertillonage, to narrow the number of suspects they sought. The evolution of biometrics research has created new modalities based on keyboarding patterns or mouse movements, walking patterns, types of speech, the configuration of veins in the finger or hand, geometries of the finger or hand, the face, and the complex structures of the melanin-rich area of the eye. These emerging biometric modalities have created many opportunities outside the more common public use. In fact, Acuity Market Intelligence, a technology strategy company located in Louisville, Colorado, predicts a compound annual growth rate of 19.69 percent for biometric technology from 2009 to 2017, at which point commercial deployment of biometrics will outpace public use.
Criminals and other ill-seekers for decades have used deception and manipulation to gain a foothold in their underground activities. A large part in the success of this deception was the ability to work anonymously or pose in different areas to full authorities. With this advent in a technological biometric renaissance, world crime can almost become obsolete. The profitability of crime will drastically decrease with the increased measures of security. Crime that remains unrelated to profit as its major incentive, however, will still remain a threat. These types include radical political activism such as terrorist threats. These people are not motivated by profit and thus their desire to beat biometric security measures will only be heightened. .
A problem with the increase of technology is the exposed risk of it.