The stolen credit for fingerprint technology ️‍️

[00:00:00]Two Indians you have never heard of built a system that track you today. So, let me explain. In 1858, British Magistrate William Herschel in Bengal pressed an Indian contractor's hand onto a concrete because he did not trust signature. That handprint became the birth of global fingerprinting. He then collected prints from thousands of pensioners, [music] prisoners, and laborers to track them. Here is the quiz. The actual mathematical system that makes fingerprints [music] searchable was invented by two Bengali police sub-officers, Azizul Haque and Hem [music] Chandra Bose in Calcutta.

[00:00:31]Haque built the classification formula.

[00:00:33]Bose created the indexing method. Their British supervisor, Edward Henry, took credit. The system is still called the Henry classification system and is used worldwide today. You know what this means? One tiny mark becomes [music] a permanent ID and you could not escape it. Okay, forget about those names.

[00:00:49]Let's talk about what this means for you. The world's first fingerprint bureau opened in Calcutta in 1987, not London. That same logic of [music] collecting the marks and tracking the person is exactly what Aadhaar scaled up 120 years later. One small mark became the biggest tool for population control.

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