Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, security and identification in global perspective

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Summary

This book analyzes the origins and consequences of new ID systems in several countries, highlighting urgent ethical and politics questions.

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List of contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Setting the Scene
Playing the ID card: Understanding the significance of identity Card Systems
Governing by Identity
Colonial Legacies
The elusive panopticon: The HANIS project and the politics of standards in South Africa
China's second generation national Identity Card: Merging culture, industry, and technology for authentication, classification, and surveillance
Hong Kong's 'smart' ID card: Designed to be out of control
A tale of the colonial age, or the banner of new tyranny? National identification Card systems in Japan
India's new ID card: Fuzzy logics, double meanings and ethnic ambiguities
Population ID card systems in the Middle East: The case of the UAE
Encountering Democratic Opposition
Separating the Sheep from the Goats: The United Kingdom's National Registration Program and social sorting in the pre-electronic era
The United Kingdom identity Card scheme: Shifting motivations, static technologies
The politics of Australia's "Access Card"
The INES biometric card and the politics of national identity assignment in France
The US Real ID Act and the securitization of identity
Toward a national ID card for Canada? External drivers and internal complexities
Transnational Regimes
ICAO and the biometric RFID passport: History and analysis
Another piece of Europe in your pocket: The European Health Insurance Card
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