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

by Bennett; Colin J.

• ISBN13: 9780415465649
• ISBN10: 0415465648
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-09-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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

Table of Contents

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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