Monitoring laws : profiling and identity in the world state / Jake Goldenfein, Cornell Tech, Cornell University.

Author
Goldenfein, Jake [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Description
viii, 190 pages ; 24 cm

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    Our world, and the objects and people within it, are increasingly interpreted and classified by automated systems. At the same time, those automated systems and their classifications influence what happens in the physical world. In this cyber-physical world or 'world state', people are asking what law's role should be in regulating these systems. In Monitoring Laws, Jake Goldenfein traces the history of government profiling from the invention of photography to create criminal registers, through the emerging deployments of computer vision for personality, emotion, and behavioral analysis. He asks what elements and applications of profiling have provoked legal intervention in the past, and demonstrates exactly what is different about contemporary profiling that requires a new legal treatments. This work should be read by anyone interested in how computation is changing society and governance, and what the law can do to better protect us from these changes now.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Monitoring laws
    • The image and institutional identity
    • Image and biometrics : privacy and stigmatisation
    • Dossiers, behavioural data, and secret speculation
    • Data subject rights and the importance of access
    • Automation, actuarial identity, and law enforcement informatics
    • Algorithmic accountability and the statistical legal subject
    • From photographic image to computer vision : neural networks and identity in the world state
    • Person, place, and contest in the world state
    • Law and legal automation in the world state.
    ISBN
    • 9781108426626 (hardcover)
    • 110842662X (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2019020265
    OCLC
    1099538591
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