Monitoring laws : profiling and identity in the world state / Jake Goldenfein.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781108637657 (ebook)
- Electronic surveillance -- Law and legislation
- Government information -- Law and legislation
- Behavioral assessment
- Rule of law
- Biometric identification -- Government policy
- Criminal behavior, Prediction of
- Electronic surveillance -- Government policy
- Law enforcement -- Government policy
- Civil rights
- Privacy, Right of
- 342.0858 23
- K3264.C65 G65 2020
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Our world, and the objects and people within it, are increasingly interpreted and classified by automated systems. At the same time, those automated systems and their classifications influence what happens in the physical world. In this cyber-physical world or 'world state', people are asking what law's role should be in regulating these systems. In Monitoring Laws, Jake Goldenfein traces the history of government profiling, from the invention of photography to create criminal registers, through the emerging deployments of computer vision for personality, emotion, and behavioral analysis. He asks what elements and applications of profiling have provoked legal intervention in the past, and demonstrates exactly what is different about contemporary profiling that requires a new legal treatments. This work should be read by anyone interested in how computation is changing society and governance, and what the law can do to better protect us from these changes now.
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