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eBook details
- Title: Biometrics
- Author : Joseph Pugliese
- Release Date : January 06, 2012
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,Professional & Technical,Engineering,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3950 KB
Description
Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns about security and screening have increased. This book analyses biometric systems in terms of the application of biopolitical power – corporate, military and governmental – on the human body. It deploys cultural theory in examining the manner in which biometric technologies constitute the body as a target of surveillance and as a data-information object. The book thereby provides a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of both the local and global ramifications of biometric technologies.