For example, Canada's Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, building a nation states, 'We start with the use of photo identification, proposed as a security feature for the new card. The first thing to note is that human beings are not particularly acute at recognizing individuals from photograph identification, particularly across cultural lines. Moreover, glasses, hairstyles and (for men) facial hair may change, which may lead to questions even when the holder of the card is genuine" It is interesting to note here that biometric identifiers are suggested by the committee as a means to solve detection problems resulting from human beings Mac of ability to recognize individuals from photographs. I argue that what is suggested here is that digitized body data can be a technology to secure accurate and, presumably, fixed race and gender detection. Moreover in this system it is apparently understood that only men have facial hair
Footnote 88 (Simone Browne, Dark Matters pg. 181
-MS
