Magnet When Biometrics Fail

Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9482-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Magnet, Shoshana Amielle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.