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Normative Assumptions in Biometrics: On Bodily Differences and Automated Classifications

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This chapter sets out to question the normative assumptions about human bodies embedded in biometric technologies, and to articulate and discuss issues emerging from the various ways in which biometric technologies and human bodily differences interact and interfere with each other. It will do so in particular in relation to ‘next generation biometrics’ such as soft biometrics, physiological biometrics, and distant sensing technologies.

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Acknowledgments

Funding of the research for this paper was partly provided by the European Research Council and the European Commission, both under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013), DigIDeas Project/ERC Grant Agreement 201853, and HIDE project/EC Grant Agreement 217762.

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van der Ploeg, I. (2011). Normative Assumptions in Biometrics: On Bodily Differences and Automated Classifications. In: van der Hof, S., Groothuis, M. (eds) Innovating Government. Information Technology and Law Series, vol 20. T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-731-9_3

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