Unless the camera is inches away and has time to focus. Then those ridges and whorls and loops could find their way into a database ...
The answer is simple: just turn your hand so that the back is toward the viewer when flashing the peace sign.
Well, I would imagine
‘Flipping one the Bird’
and the bonus
‘And this one is for your horse’
would fall under the same category.
Yet another reason to buy duct tape.
OK, from now I will only give the one finger salute.
Fake news.
No way are lighting levels sufficient to illuminate whorls on the finger in any normal photo.
lesson for peace sign flashers: don’t do that
That is amazing.
A certain amount of resolution is needed. The casual photo just won’t do it.
Any picture taken of Japanese kids will include lots of peace signs. It is like they are hard-wired for it. Camera? Smile and flash peace sign, so no wonder the Japanese are concerned.
So when playing Rock Paper Scissors, never do Scissors.
The so-called “peace” sign is not a peace sign. It became popular from W. Churchill’s use of the “V” for Victory sign— adjusted for American/western views as a “V”.... but which,in reality was a clever re-use (for internal British propaganda purposes) the quite old sign of “two fingers”.
The cultural history on this sign comes from the aftermath Battle of Agincourt in 1415 in which Henry V of England with a very small army, defeated France’s heavy cavalry of mounted knights— defeated them with archers using the famed English Longbow. Raining down clouds of high velocity, armor piercing- pointed arrows, killing large numbers of the French. That, and tons of mud bogging the French horse and men.
So where did the “two fingers” sign come from? Archers were hated in chivalry days- as being “not honorable, or knightly”. If captured, an English archer had his bowstring fingers (either left or right handed bowstring pulling fingers) cut off by the French ... so they could never fire an arrow again.
The gesture, holding up the first two fingers, with back of the hand facing outwards (and doubly adding a “Roman” up yours motion) was one used by the victorious English archers at Agincourt to taunt the remaining few French lords— “we still have our bow fingers....@ssh@les” (like Nathaniel Greenes’ men “mooning” who was stranded across the Dan River at South Boston—the American Patriots having taken all the boats to the other side of the wide river).
Churchill reversed the hand, towards people, in the US (but is photographed not doing this in the UK, notably!!) to make it a palatable understandable “V” for Victory. And of course, the Vichy French, being anti-English, also “got the message”- we’re coming for you. Churchill was a bright cookie sometimes.