TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gates,Kelly A.
TI  - Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance 
T2  - Critical Cultural Communication
SN  - 9780814732090
AV  - TK7882.B56 G38 2016
U1  - 363.232 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Biometric identification
KW  - Face
KW  - Identification
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Biometric
KW  - Future
KW  - Tracking
KW  - approach
KW  - complex
KW  - example
KW  - failed
KW  - governance
KW  - identifies
KW  - prime
KW  - problems
KW  - pursued
KW  - pursuit
KW  - shortsighted
KW  - social
KW  - solutions
KW  - technocratic
KW  - technological
KW  - technologies
KW  - this
KW  - where
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to "see" the human face-to develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them from one another-commonly known as Facial Recognition Technology. While computer scientists are developing FRT in order to design more intelligent and interactive machines, businesses and states agencies view the technology as uniquely suited for "smart" surveillance-systems that automate the labor of monitoring in order to increase their efficacy and spread their reach.Tracking this technological pursuit, Our Biometric Future identifies FRT as a prime example of the failed technocratic approach to governance, where new technologies are pursued as shortsighted solutions to complex social problems. Culling news stories, press releases, policy statements, PR kits and other materials, Kelly Gates provides evidence that, instead of providing more security for more people, the pursuit of FRT is being driven by the priorities of corporations, law enforcement and state security agencies, all convinced of the technology's necessity and unhindered by its complicated and potentially destructive social consequences. By focusing on the politics of developing and deploying these technologies, Our Biometric Future argues not for the inevitability of a particular technological future, but for its profound contingency and contestability
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814733035
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814733035/original
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