Disclosive ethics and information technology: Disclosing facial recognition systems

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 75-86

  Introna, Lucas D ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biases; Disclosive ethics; Facialre cognition systems; False positives; Information technology; Politics

Indexed keywords

BIASES; DISCLOSIVE ETHICS; FACIAL RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; FALSE POSITIVE; INFORMATION ETHICS; POLITICS; SOCIO-TECHNICAL NETWORKS; TECHNICAL DETAILS;

DESIGN; FACE RECOGNITION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 31144453808     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-005-4583-2     Document Type: Article

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