Wearing Someone Else’s Face: Biometric Technologies, Anti-spoofing and the Fear of the Unknown
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Wearing Someone Else’s Face : Biometric Technologies, Anti-spoofing and the Fear of the Unknown. / Grünenberg, Kristina.
I: Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology, Bind 87, Nr. 2, 2022, s. 223-240.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Wearing Someone Else’s Face
T2 - Biometric Technologies, Anti-spoofing and the Fear of the Unknown
AU - Grünenberg, Kristina
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Spoofing denotes attempts to cheat biometric technologies with artefacts (e.g. fake fingers, masks). This way of circumventing biometric systems has recently generated great interest in the line of work known as ‘anti-spoofing’, which is responsible for developing counter measures. Part of the work of biometric laboratories revolves around identifying imaginable spoofs and spoofers and developing technologies that can detect real from fake bodies. Based on fieldwork among researchers in a biometric lab, at international conferences where policy-makers, security officials and industry discuss biometric technologies, the article shows how the figure of the spoofer epitomizes certain concerns and brings with it particular types of practices and threat scenarios. Biometric technologies, it is argued, are constantly changing shape in response to the imagined, potential threats embodied by the spoofer in,for example, state security contexts and at borders, where fears of the potentialconsequences of uncontrolled migration, terrorism and global crime prevail
AB - Spoofing denotes attempts to cheat biometric technologies with artefacts (e.g. fake fingers, masks). This way of circumventing biometric systems has recently generated great interest in the line of work known as ‘anti-spoofing’, which is responsible for developing counter measures. Part of the work of biometric laboratories revolves around identifying imaginable spoofs and spoofers and developing technologies that can detect real from fake bodies. Based on fieldwork among researchers in a biometric lab, at international conferences where policy-makers, security officials and industry discuss biometric technologies, the article shows how the figure of the spoofer epitomizes certain concerns and brings with it particular types of practices and threat scenarios. Biometric technologies, it is argued, are constantly changing shape in response to the imagined, potential threats embodied by the spoofer in,for example, state security contexts and at borders, where fears of the potentialconsequences of uncontrolled migration, terrorism and global crime prevail
KW - Biometric technologies
KW - laboratories
KW - spoofing
KW - masks
KW - face recognition
U2 - 10.1080/00141844.2019.1705869
DO - 10.1080/00141844.2019.1705869
M3 - Journal article
VL - 87
SP - 223
EP - 240
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
SN - 0014-1844
IS - 2
ER -
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