Title When biometrics fail : gender, race, and the technology of identity / Shoshana Amielle Magnet

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2011 ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 207 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary "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"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-198) and index Notes English Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed December 16, 2014) Subject Biometric identification. Biometric identification -- Political aspects Biometric identification -- Social aspects Human face recognition (Computer science) Biometry. Biometric Identification Biometry Ethics, Medical biometrics. NATURE -- Reference. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. Human face recognition (Computer science) Biometry Biometric identification Biometrie Geschlechtsunterschied Rasse Form Electronic book LC no. 2011021954 ISBN 9780822394822 0822394820 1283321289 9781283321280 9786613321282 6613321281

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