Name: When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity (en Inglés)
SKU: 7592693
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Author: Shoshana Amielle Magnet
ISBN: 9780822351351

portada When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity (en Inglés)

When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Duke Univ Pr

Autor

Shoshana Amielle Magnet

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

822351358

ISBN13

9780822351351

Categorías

Ciencia: cuestiones generales

When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity (en Inglés)

Shoshana Amielle Magnet (Autor) · Duke Univ Pr · Tapa Blanda

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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.