How to Use fingerprinting in a Sentence

fingerprinting

noun
  • At the top of their list is the demand for fingerprinting at the model layer.
    — Virginie Berger, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • The fee includes the cost of fingerprinting, a background check and a work permit.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Two hours later, they were handcuffed and taken for fingerprinting, and their hope grew stronger.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • While third-party cookies are on the way out, there are other ways for websites and browsers to track you—such as browser fingerprinting.
    — Matt Burgess, Wired, 22 May 2021
  • Those attempting to use fingerprinting get flagged with a fingerprint icon.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • While the techniques evolve, the ultimate goal of brain fingerprinting remains constant.
    — Lucy Tu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
  • On-site interviews will be conducted, and fingerprinting may be completed the same day.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Apple’s rules state that app developers aren’t allowed to track you in any way on your iPhone and shady techniques such as fingerprinting are banned.
    — Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Meanwhile, Chrome users are left with the irony of a simultaneous good move on tracking cookies and bad move on fingerprinting.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Social media, cookies and browser fingerprinting can all put your identity at risk of exposure.
    — Francis Dinha, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Williams has addressed the bussing by hosting bus driver job fairs, helping waive applicant fingerprinting and increasing bus driver pay.
    — Sabrina Leboeuf and Lillian Reed, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2022
  • Other tracking methods, such as cookies and browser fingerprinting, can still identify users.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The administration has required fingerprinting from sponsors and any adults living in the home where children are released.
    — Valerie Gonzalez, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • This is called digital fingerprinting.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This is called digital fingerprinting.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Just as with its decision to unkill tracking cookies, Google has also brought back digital fingerprinting this year.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Just as with its decision to unkill tracking cookies, Google has also brought back digital fingerprinting this year.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • To receive a permit, applicants must undergo fingerprinting and a background check.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
  • This new fee will cover the cost of biometric requirements, including fingerprinting.
    — Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Ultimately, though, tracking and device fingerprinting are likely here to stay in some form, even in Apple’s walled garden.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Google says that Topics should be broad enough to ensure that users are not individually tracked and to further reduce fingerprinting.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The future of touchless fingerprinting is bright, with potential growth across multiple industries.
    — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Authorities said several items of evidence were gathered and sent to the crime lab for forensic analysis and fingerprinting.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
  • Digital fingerprinting is back on the table and is going beyond traditional browsers, just as the tracking and search ecosystems are being shaken up.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The protection extends to crypto-mining and fingerprinting.
    — PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Advances in the science of climate fingerprinting, for example, made a big difference in climate research during the five years between the two reports.
    — Ben Santer, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The product of fingerprinting is a user identity key—a unique combination of hardware, browser and network data.
    — Ilya Lashch, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Put very simply, Private Relay blocks the exact type of web tracking and fingerprinting for which Chrome is lambasted.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The use of fingerprinting is in violation of Apple’s policies, and raises questions around to what extent the company is able to enforce its policies.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The process includes checking references and credentials in addition to a criminal background check and fingerprinting.
    — Chris Papst, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024

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