Biometric identification and registration systems are being
proposed by governments and businesses across the world.
Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development
in countries in Africa and Asia. In this groundbreaking book, Keith
Breckenridge traces how the origins of the systems being developed
in places like India, Mexico, Nigeria and Ghana can be found in a
century-long history of biometric government in South Africa, with
the South African experience of centralized fingerprint
identification unparalleled in its chronological depth and
demographic scope. He shows how empire, and particularly the
triangular relationship between India, the Witwatersrand and
Britain, established the special South African obsession with
biometric government, and shaped the international politics that
developed around it for the length of the twentieth century. He
also examines the political effects of biometric registration
systems, revealing their consequences for the basic workings of the
institutions of democracy and authoritarianism.
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