The two faces of the child in facial recognition industry discourse: biometric capture between innocence and recalcitrance

IF 4.2 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2022-03-06 DOI:10.1080/1369118X.2022.2044501

Christopher O’Neill, N. Selwyn, Gavin Smith, M. Andrejevic, Xin Gu

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article explores how the child is evoked in the discursive construction of facial recognition technology. Facial recognition technology is one of the most socially contentious emerging technologies of recent years, heavily criticised for enabling racialized and other forms of social harms. Drawing on data gathered through facial recognition tradeshow ethnographies, and interviews with members of the biometrics industry, we explore how the biometric monitoring of children has gained a prominent place in the industry’s promotion of facial recognition technology as a mode of ‘careful’ surveillance. At the same time, however, the fast-changing face of the growing child is acknowledged as a difficult technical challenge to the efficient development and use of this technology. We argue that in these industry discourses the child is figured as both innocent and recalcitrant, and that the facial recognition industry has productively exploited the tension between these two figurations to legitimate and expand its own enterprise.

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面部识别行业话语中孩子的两张脸：天真与倔强之间的生物识别捕捉

摘要:本文探讨了儿童在人脸识别技术的话语建构中是如何被唤起的。面部识别技术是近年来最具社会争议的新兴技术之一，因导致种族化和其他形式的社会危害而受到严厉批评。根据通过面部识别贸易展人种志收集的数据，以及对生物识别行业成员的采访，我们探讨了儿童的生物特征监测如何在行业推广面部识别技术作为一种“谨慎”监控模式中获得突出地位。然而，与此同时，正在成长的儿童的快速变化的面孔被认为是有效开发和使用这项技术的一个困难的技术挑战。我们认为，在这些行业话语中，儿童被认为是无辜的和顽抗的，面部识别行业有效地利用了这两种形象之间的紧张关系，使自己的企业合法化并扩大。

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Information Communication & Society Multiple-

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10.20

自引率

4.80%

发文量

110

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