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When biometrics fail : gender, race, and the technology of identity / Shoshana Amielle Magnet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magnet, Shoshana.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biometric identification.
- Biometric identification--Political aspects.
- Biometric identification--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : imagining biometric security
- Biometric failure
- I-tech and the beginnings of biometrics
- Criminalizing poverty : adding biometrics to welfare
- Biometrics at the border
- Representing biometrics
- Conclusion : biometric failure and beyond.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613321282
- 9780822394822
- 0822394820
- 9781283321280
- 1283321289
- OCLC:
- 766005388
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