Book contents
- Monitoring Laws
- Monitoring Laws
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Monitoring Laws
- 2 The Image and Institutional Identity
- 3 Images and Biometrics – Privacy and Stigmatisation
- 4 Dossiers, Behavioural Data, and Secret Speculation
- 5 Data Subject Rights and the Importance of Access
- 6 Automation, Actuarial Identity, and Law Enforcement Informatics
- 7 Algorithmic Accountability and the Statistical Legal Subject
- 8 From Photographic Image to Computer Vision
- 9 Person, Place, and Contest in the World State
- 10 Law and Legal Automation in the World State
- Index
1 - Monitoring Laws
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2019
- Monitoring Laws
- Monitoring Laws
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Monitoring Laws
- 2 The Image and Institutional Identity
- 3 Images and Biometrics – Privacy and Stigmatisation
- 4 Dossiers, Behavioural Data, and Secret Speculation
- 5 Data Subject Rights and the Importance of Access
- 6 Automation, Actuarial Identity, and Law Enforcement Informatics
- 7 Algorithmic Accountability and the Statistical Legal Subject
- 8 From Photographic Image to Computer Vision
- 9 Person, Place, and Contest in the World State
- 10 Law and Legal Automation in the World State
- Index
Summary
Automated decision-making and profiling are becoming more prolific and changing in nature. What began with police photography and Habitual Criminal Registers has reached a new crescendo with computer vision and data science. Law has struggled to adequately regulate these technologies and practices. Where it has been successful, law constrains profiling by protecting ‘identity’. However, in the contemporary technological environment, the notions of identity that animate the legal thinking and the notions of identity that animate the data science and profiling are markedly different. This chapter introduces the argument that these contradictory ways of thinking about people is why the law has struggled to introduce meaningful regulation in this field. It introduces the metaphor of the ‘world state’, the process by which the world and the people within it are translated into the computational world, and asks what law needs to do as the world state becomes more prominent.
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- Monitoring LawsProfiling and Identity in the World State, pp. 1 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019