Zeitschrift für Biometrie und Biostatistik

Getting Identities: Biometric Technologies and the Enactment of Human Bodily Differences

Abstract

Seungjin Sul

Around the world, biometrics are rapidly turning into the favored answer for a wide scope of issues including character checking. Biometrics are professed to give safer recognizable proof and confirmation, in light of the fact that 'the body doesn't lie.' Yet, every biometric check comprises of an interaction with many moderate advances, presenting possibility and decision on numerous levels. Moreover, there are fundamental regulating suspicions in regards to human bodies that influence the working of biometric frameworks in exceptionally hazardous manners. In ongoing sociology considers, the disappointments of biometric frameworks have been deciphered as gendered and racialized predispositions.