Biometrics and Access Control in the Digital Age.
Part of a special section on markets in people, body parts, and biological and genetic matter or information. Biometrics is a term that is used to refer to digital technologies that automate the process of recognizing individual human beings. Biometrics use computer algorithms to translate images...
| Publicado en: | NACLA Report on the Americas Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 35 - 41 |
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North American Congress on Latin America
March/April 2006
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| Sumario: | Part of a special section on markets in people, body parts, and biological and genetic matter or information. Biometrics is a term that is used to refer to digital technologies that automate the process of recognizing individual human beings. Biometrics use computer algorithms to translate images of live people into a small amount of data, sometimes referred to as a digital template, that can be compared against information stored on identification documents or against images stored in a database. Biometric identification systems are designed to safeguard existing social inequalities and are playing a key role in efforts to broaden and govern information networks that benefit global capitalism. |
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