Monitoring Laws - Profiling and Identity in the World State

List of contents

1. Monitoring laws; 2. The image and institutional identity; 3. Images and biometrics: privacy and stigmatization; 4. Dossiers, behavioural data, and secret speculation; 5. Data subject rights and the importance of access; 6. Automation, actuarial identity, and law enforcement informatics; 7. Algorithmic accountability and the statistical legal subject; 8. From image to computer vision: identity in the world state; 9. Person, place, and contest in the world state; 10. Law and legal automation in the world state; Index.

About the author

Jake Goldenfein is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell University, New York, and a lecturer at Swinburne Law School. A law and technology scholar exploring governance in computational society, Goldenfein has published across disciplines, with work appearing in Law and Critique, the Columbia Journal of Law and Arts, the Internet Policy Review, and the University of New South Wales Law Journal.

Summary

Traces the history of government profiling, the effects of contemporary technologies on surveillance practices, and how the law protects individuals by protecting 'identity'. Goldenfein's analysis of emerging legal protections for contemporary technological environments makes this ideal for anyone interested in how computation is changing society and governance.

Product details

• Authors: Jake Goldenfein, Jake (Cornell University Goldenfein, Jake (Swinburne University of Technolo Goldenfein
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108426626
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42662-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Globalization, LAW / General, Systems of law, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Computer security, Information theory, Legal aspects of IT, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects