Our Biometric Future - Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance

Klappentext Identifies Facial Recognition Technology as an example of the failed technocratic approach to governance! where new technologies are pursued as short-sighted solutions to complex social problems Zusammenfassung 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. This book focuses on the politics of developing and deploying these technologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents; Acknowledgments vi; Introduction: Experimenting with the Face 1; 1. Facial Recognition Technology from the Lab to the Marketplace 34; 2. Police Power and the "Smart CCTV" Experiment 83; 3. "Finding the Face of Terror in Data" 129; 4. Inventing the Security-conscious! Tech-savvy Citizen 164; 5. Automated Facial Expression Analysis and the Mobilization of Affect 197; Conclusion 252; Notes 266; Bibliography 341; Index; About the Author 364

Product details

• Authors: Kelly Gates, Kelly A. Gates
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2011
• EAN: 9780814732090
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-3209-0
• Series: Critical Cultural Communicatio; Critical Cultural Communication
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries