CRM 3326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Determinism, Technological Determinism, Risk Society

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3326
• Professor: Dominique Robert

Document Summary

There are two sides: technology is the driving force, or that culture is the driving force it is a trap. The limits of debunking: destroying one determinism by the other, remaining caught up in this simple causality. Face to database: authentication: ascertain someone"s identity one to one. No central database is required: george tomko an opponent against authentication cheap system. Authentication is not a safe way to treat the welfare and privacy of welfare recipients. The proponents say off the shelf biometrics are inherently safe and privacy-enhancing (storage on smart card only, in the possession of the individuals only) td. Proponents are wrong, off the shelf biometrics requires work done by humans, we can"t control everything cd. Technology as a human practice, fluidity of the techno, we can"t know it will work. "off the shelf" biometrics are inherently privacy defective and dangerous, this threat to privacy is an objective property of those biometrics device td.