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negative identification

ne·ga·ti·veidentification

uncommon

noun

1.

evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not; evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to rejection

  • “a system for negative identification can prevent the use of multiple identities by a single person”

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