When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity

By E. Fairchild. 2013

249 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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1. Andrew Gelman
2. Xiao-Li Meng
3. Justin T. Pickett
4. Andrew J. Thompson

Citations in the corpus

• Gaydar and the Fallacy of Decontextualized Measurement (2018, background): “These are what Magnet (2011) calls the “demographic failures” baked into biometric technologies by reductive and biased samples; after an exhaustive review of their failures, she concludes that “human bodies are not biometrifiable.””