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9780415465649: Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective
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ISBN 10: 0415465648 ISBN 13: 9780415465649
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2008

Sinossi

National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the more recent responses to 9/11 have prompted the quest for more stable identity systems. Commercial pressures mix with security rationales to catalyze ID development, aimed at accuracy, efficiency and speed. New ID systems also depend on computerized national registries. Many questions are raised about new IDs but they are often limited by focusing on the cards themselves or on "privacy."

Playing the Identity Card shows not only the benefits of how the state can "see" citizens better using these instruments but also the challenges this raises for civil liberties and human rights. ID cards are part of a broader trend towards intensified surveillance and as such are understood very differently according to the history and cultures of the countries concerned.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Colin J. Bennett is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research has focused on the comparative analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels.


David Lyon

is the Director of the Surveillance Project and Research Chair in Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada. He has been working on surveillance issues since the 1980s, and has particular research interests in national ID cards, aviation security and surveillance and in promoting the cross-disciplinary and international study of surveillance.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415465648
ISBN 13 
9780415465649
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
304
Redattore
Bennett Colin J, Lyon David
Contatto del produttore
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