A groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.

This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. In the wake of

In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa ‘from below,’ asking what this means for the r

Biometric Systems provides practitioners with an overview of the principles and methods needed to build reliable biometric systems. It covers three main topics:

This book examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies&—such as facial recognition software and digital fingerprinting&—that have come to pervade