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

By:

Lyon, David, 1948- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: 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:

Contributor biographical information

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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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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