Ask HN: How fingerprints can be used as evidence?

1 points by finchisko ↗ HN
How fingerprints can be used as evidence when apple claims its touchid is only 1:50000 accurate?

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1:50000 is not the probability that two fingerprints are identical, it’s the probability that whatever features Apple’s TouchID extracts from a fingerprint are identical.

Also, we accept way more noisy data as evidence, too. For example, blood group data may be used to push a case “beyond reasonable doubt”

Ok. So I wonder what's the probability when police is doing fingerprint test. Is it way more?