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Identifying citizens : ID cards as surveillance / by David Lyon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, 2009Description: viii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745641555
  • 9780745641553
  • 0745641563
  • 9780745641560
Other title:
  • Identification cards as surveillance
  • ID cards as surveillance
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.448 22
LOC classification:
  • JC596 .L958 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Demanding documents -- Sorting systems -- Card cartel -- Stretched screens -- Body badges -- Cyber-citizens.
Summary: New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos using a scanner & may rely on computerized registries of personal information. In this book, David Lyon argues that such IDs represent a fresh phase in the long-term attempts of modern states to find stable ways of identifying citizens.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-201) and index.

Demanding documents -- Sorting systems -- Card cartel -- Stretched screens -- Body badges -- Cyber-citizens.

New ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos using a scanner & may rely on computerized registries of personal information. In this book, David Lyon argues that such IDs represent a fresh phase in the long-term attempts of modern states to find stable ways of identifying citizens.

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