America Identified

Author: Lisa S. Nelson
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0262014777

America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society

The use of biometric technology for identification has gone from Orwellian fantasy to everyday reality. Download America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. This technology, which verifies or recognizes a person's identity based on physiological, anatomical, or behavioral patterns (including fingerprints, retina, handwriting, and keystrokes) has been deployed for such purposes as combating welfare fraud, screening airplane passengers, and identifying terrorists. The accompanying controversy has pitted those who praise the technology's accuracy and efficiency against advocates for privacy and civil liberties. In America Identified, Lisa Nelson investigates the complex public responses to biometric technology. She uses societal perceptions of this particular identification technology to explore th Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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