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Summary Mark Maguire: Birth of Biometric Security
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Mark Maguire: Birth of Biometric Security Biometric security thus involves an information system with multiple levels of access,
degrees of openness and potential for inaccuracies.
For some commentators, the current revolution in biometrics marks a new era of
surveillance in which the body is both the target and the instrument of control
genealogy of biometric security draws attention to security as an appropriate field of
anthropological enquiry. If we follow Michel Foucault, security must be considered as a
productive apparatus: it allows ‘circulations to take place […] controlling them, sifting the
good from the bad, ensuring that things are always in movement […] but in such a way that
the inherent dangers of this circulation are cancelled out
- links individuals and their mobility to bio-political power and governmentality. Biometric
security, in the 19th century as today, oscillates between knowledge of and power over
populations and the securitization of individual identity.
The history of the present Much of the contemporary literature on biometrics is concerned with
the efficacy of the technologies, the implications for privacy and the relative openness of
database
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