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- ISBN: 9780415874878 | 0415874874
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 7/20/2010
Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. This book critically analyses these technologies in terms of the application of biopolitical power ' corporate, military and governmental ' on the human body.