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Just no. Since old times fingerprints were used as a unique signature, not an unique id.

Unique id could be something as silly as

  sha256(concatenate(full-name,date-of-birth,place-of-birth))
or just any unique number, like cell phone number.

Again, a fingerprint or an image of a retina is a signature or password not an id or username.




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