“The company that supplies fingerprint-identification systems to the FBI, the Defense Department and driver’s-license agencies in most U.S. states is based in France and describes its technology as French in origin. But in a lawsuit newly unsealed in federal court in San Jose, plaintiffs identified as two former company executives say the technology was actually developed by a Russian firm, is used by Russia’s security agency, and could be sabotaged in the event of a crisis.”
Source: Suit warns of Russian ‘back door’ into U.S. fingerprint systems – SFGate