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050 4 _aTK7882.B56
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072 7 _aSOC052000
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082 0 4 _a363.232
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGates, Kelly A.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aOur Biometric Future :
_bFacial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance /
_cKelly A. Gates.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aCritical Cultural Communication ;
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506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aSince 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aBiometric identification.
650 0 _aFace
_xIdentification.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
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653 _aBiometric.
653 _aFuture.
653 _aTracking.
653 _aapproach.
653 _acomplex.
653 _aexample.
653 _afailed.
653 _agovernance.
653 _aidentifies.
653 _aprime.
653 _aproblems.
653 _apursued.
653 _apursuit.
653 _ashortsighted.
653 _asocial.
653 _asolutions.
653 _atechnocratic.
653 _atechnological.
653 _atechnologies.
653 _athis.
653 _awhere.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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