Governing through biometrics the biopolitics of identity

How can the field of biometrics be used to protect identity?
Biometrics scanners are hardware used to capture the biometric for verification of identity.
These scans match against the saved database to approve or deny access to the system.
In other words, biometric security means your body becomes the “key” to unlock your access..
Is biometric an identity?
Biometric identification uses biometrics, such as fingerprints, facial recognition or retina scans, to identify a person, whereas biometric authentication is the use of biometrics to verify people are who they claim to be..
What does biometrics do with identity?
In cataloging the immutable physical characteristics of a person—finger and palm prints, iris scans, facial imagery, and DNA—biometric identification systems combine multiple identifiers to produce a more complete, accurate database of identity..
What is biometric authentication used by the government?
Many U.S. federal government job applicants and contractors must undergo background checks to confirm their claimed identity and to verify they're not listed in criminal databases.
Biometrics enhance identity proofing for employee screening by searching biometric databases using fingerprint, face, or iris data..
Many U.S. federal government job applicants and contractors must undergo background checks to confirm their claimed identity and to verify they're not listed in criminal databases.
Biometrics enhance identity proofing for employee screening by searching biometric databases using fingerprint, face, or iris data.

$84.99 In stockAbout this book. Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at

$84.99 In stockThis book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for surveillance and securitization purposes drawing on a number of critical

Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. Google BooksOriginally published: 2013Author: Btihaj Ajana

The book deploys the concept of biopolitics as a top-level concept for theorising the governing of populations and individuals through biometric identity technologies and rationalities of security and risk, and in doing so adopts an explicitly political study of identity governance.

Governing through biometrics the biopolitics of identity

How can the field of biometrics be used to protect identity?

Is biometric an identity?

What does biometrics do with identity?

What is biometric authentication used by the government?