The Biometric State: The Promise and Peril of Digital Government in the New South Africa
The Biometric State: The Promise and Peril of Digital Government in the New South Africa
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生物识别国家：新南非数字政府的前景和危险
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2005
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K. Breckenridge
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K. Breckenridge
在9月11日的政治余震中，美国和英国的强大利益集团提议发展国家生物识别和登记系统。在上个世纪的大部分时间里，南非人一直生活在这样一种生物识别秩序中，近年来，这个民主国家开始投资于一项大规模的数字生物识别计划，以提供福利和消除欺诈。在HANIS系统之前，有一个大规模的数字生物识别赠款交付项目，影响了全国数百万人。这些制度正在改变国家的性质，以及私人与商业领域之间的关系。对于那些考虑从分散的纸质身份识别秩序转向数字生物识别新世界的国家来说，对当代南非的仔细研究可以学到很多东西。
In the political aftershocks of September 11, powerful interests in the United States and Britain have proposed the development of national systems of biometric identification and registration. For much of the last century, South Africans have lived with such a biometric order, and in recent years the democratic state has begun to invest in a massive scheme of digital biometrics for the delivery of benefits and the elimination of fraud. This HANIS system has been preceded by a massive project of digital biometric grant delivery that affects millions of people throughout the country. These systems are changing the nature of the state, and the relationship between private individuals and the commercial domain. For the countries considering a move from the decentralised order of paper-based identification to the new world of digital biometrics, there is much to be learned from a close study of contemporary South Africa.