Publication
2012
This report situates the use of biometrics as a security technology in relation to this promise of superior identification on the one hand and, on the other, to the various concerns that critics have raised. It argues that it is vital that decision makers acknowledge how biometrics is neither a flawless nor a politically neutral technology. Unless caution and concerns are taken seriously the risk is that biometrics will produce new forms of insecurity – rather than increased security.
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Author | Katja Lindskov Jacobsen |
Series | DIIS Reports |
Issue | 7 |
Publisher | Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) |
Copyright | © 2012 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen |