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100 1 _aNelson, Lisa S.,
_q(Lisa Sue)
_eauthor.
_923040
245 1 0 _aAmerica identified :
_bbiometric technology and society /
_cLisa S. Nelson.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bMIT Press,
_cc2011.
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2010]
300 _a1 PDF (viii, 258 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aModern identification -- September 11 -- Privacy and biometric technology -- Anonymity -- Trust and confidence -- Paternalism -- Conclusion.
506 1 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 _aThe use of biometric technology for identification has gone from Orwellian fantasy to everyday reality. This technology, which verifies or recognizes a person's identity based on physiological, anatomical, or behavioral patterns (including fingerprints, retina, handwriting, and keystrokes) has been deployed for such purposes as combating welfare fraud, screening airplane passengers, and identifying terrorists. The accompanying controversy has pitted those who praise the technology's accuracy and efficiency against advocates for privacy and civil liberties. In America Identified, Lisa Nelson investigates the complex public responses to biometric technology. She uses societal perceptions of this particular identification technology to explore the values, beliefs, and ideologies that influence public acceptance of technology. Drawing on her own extensive research with focus groups and a national survey, Nelson finds that considerations of privacy, anonymity, trust and confidence in institutions, and the legitimacy of paternalistic government interventions are extremely important to users and potential users of the technology. She examines the long history of government systems of identification and the controversies they have inspired; the effect of the information technology revolution and the events of September 11, 2001; the normative value of privacy (as opposed to its merely legal definition); the place of surveillance technologies in a civil society; trust in government and distrust in the expanded role of government; and the balance between the need for government to act to prevent harm and the possible threat to liberty in government's actions.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
588 _aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
650 0 _aSocial interaction
_xTechnological innovations.
_923041
650 0 _aPrivacy, Right of.
_913192
650 0 _aBiometric identification.
_911407
650 0 _aTechnological innovations
_xSocial aspects.
_923042
655 0 _aElectronic books.
_93294
710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
_923043
710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
_923044
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780262014779
856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267483
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