Shoshana Amielle Magnet

When Biometrics Fail

Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies-such as facial recognition software and digital fingerprinting-that have come to pervade our everyday lives. Often developed as methods to ensure "national security," these technologies are also routinely employed to regulate our personal information, our work lives, what we buy, and how we live.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351238
• ISBN-10: 0822351234
• Artikelnr.: 34163365

Autorenporträt

Shoshana Amielle Magnet is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Women’s Studies and the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. She is a co-editor (with Kelly Gates) of The New Media of Surveillance.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Imagining Biometric Security 1
1. Biometric Failure 19
2. I-Tech and the Beginnings of Biometrics 51
3. Criminalizing Poverty: Adding Biometrics to Welfare 69
4. Biometrics at the Border 91
5. Representing Biometrics 127
Conclusion. Biometric Failure and Beyond 149
Appendix 159
Notes 165
Bibliography 171
Index 199