Magnet Shoshana Amielle Magnet

When Biometrics Fail (eBook, PDF)

Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

From digital fingerprinting to iris and retina recognition, biometric identification systems are a multibillion dollar industry and an integral part of post-9/11 national security strategy. Yet these technologies often fail to work. The scientific literature on their accuracy and reliability documents widespread and frequent technical malfunction. Shoshana Amielle Magnet argues that these systems fail so often because rendering bodies in biometric code falsely assumes that people's bodies are the same and that individual bodies are stable, or unchanging, over time. By focusing on the moments when biometrics fail, Magnet shows that the technologies work differently, and fail to function more often, on women, people of color, and people with disabilities. Her assessment emphasizes the state's use of biometrics to control and classify vulnerable and marginalized populations-including prisoners, welfare recipients, immigrants, and refugees-and to track individuals beyond the nation's territorial boundaries. When Biometrics Fail is a timely, important contribution to thinking about the security state, surveillance, identity, technology, and human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394822
• Artikelnr.: 54911507

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