Electronic identity cards and social classification

Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk and Automated Discrimination

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 77-93

  Stalder, Felix ^a   Lyon, David ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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