Title: Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective
            
                St Antonys Series
Description: "Utilising sources that range from 16th century parish registers to the 21st century supermarket loyalty card, this collection examines the history and development of identification documents and surveillance techniques over the past 500 years. Combining the knowledge of several experts from a variety of disciplines, this volume successfully demonstrates how identification and registration can enable and empower a population, particularly if the interests of the state and population coincide. It also reveals the weakness of states or corporations when dealing with issues such as popular resistance and fraud, despite great leaps forward in the scientific methods of identifying individuals. This important book offers a vital contribution to the literature on a variety of topical subject areas such as biometric identification, immigration control and personal data use, as such it is of interest to students and scholars of civil and human rights amongst other disciplines"--
Subjects: Human rights, National security, Recording and registration, Case studies, Technological innovations, Identification, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights, SCIENCE / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Social aspects, Civics & citizenship, Civil rights & citizenship, Ethical issues & debates, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Forensic science, Politics and Government, REFERENCE, Genealogy & Heraldry, Social & cultural history