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OverviewFrom 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shoshana Amielle MagnetPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.435kg ISBN: 9780822351238ISBN 10: 0822351234 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 11 November 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 199ReviewsWhen Biometrics Fail is overwhelmingly persuasive, exhaustively researched, eloquently written, and full of mordant humour and bitter truth. Shoshana Amielle Magnet explains the history, science, and ideology of our contemporary biometric moment with great skill and insight. Everyone needs to read this book. An outstanding study of the informationalization of race, gender, and immigration. Lisa Nakamura, author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet Impassioned, critical, and readable, When Biometrics Fail explores the underside of technologies that have been touted as a panacea for many of the discontents of post-9/11 society. Shoshana Amielle Magnet reveals the seldom-discussed impacts of these new technologies on people marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disability, and she challenges the commonplace assumption that human bodies can be reduced to a string of numbers. Simon A. Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification Impassioned, critical, and readable, When Biometrics Fail explores the underside of technologies that have been touted as a panacea for many of the discontents of post-9/11 society. Shoshana Amielle Magnet reveals the seldom-discussed impacts of these new technologies on people marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disabilities, and she challenges the commonplace assumption that human bodies can be reduced to a string of numbers. --Simon A. Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification Author InformationShoshana 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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