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Identity Crisis - How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood
Identity Crisis - How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood 

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Our civil liberties are at stake. The advance of identification technology - biometrics, identity cards, surveillance, databases, dossiers - threatens privacy, civil liberties, and related human interests. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, demands for identification in the name of security have increased. In this insightful book, Jim Harper takes readers inside identification - a process everyone uses every day but few people have ever thought about. Using stories and examples from movies, television, and classic literature, Harper dissects identification processes and technologies, showing how identification works when it works and how it fails when it fails. Harper explodes the myth that identification can protect against future terrorist attacks. He shows that a U.S. national identification card, created by Congress in the REAL ID Act, is a poor way to secure the country or its citizens. A national ID represents a transfer of power from individuals to institutions, and that transfer threatens liberty, enables identity fraud, and subjects people to unwanted surveillance. Instead of a uniform, government-controlled identification system, Harper calls for a competitive, responsive identification and credentialing industry that meets the mix of consumer demands for privacy, security, anonymity, and accountability. Identification should be a risk-reducing strategy in a social system, Harper concludes, not a rivet to pin humans to governmental or economic machinery.

Reviews:

"To protect against terrorism, we have to stop individuals before they act. Identity Crisis does the best job I've seen of addressing the real weaknesses in current identification systems and how they correlate directly with further impingements on our privacy and civil liberties. I would have used this book every day to help structure programs and develop policies if I'd had it at TSA."
Justin Oberman, former head of credentialing and identity programs, Transportation Security Administration

"In this thoughtful and informative book, Jim Harper argues that privacy and security can best be achieved by resisting the relentless demands for technologies of global identification, which threaten privacy without increasing security. Instead, Harper argues for technologies of authorization that allow individuals to decide how much of themselves to reveal. A valuable contribution to a polarized debate in which out-of-the-box thinking is all too rare."
Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Unwanted Gaze and The Naked Crowd

"Few people in America have done the kind of critical thinking about identity and identification that Jim Harper does in this book. An understanding of identity management and policy is essential - not only to leaders in government, but those in the commercial sector as well."
Nuala O'Connor Kelly, chief privacy leader, GE, and former chief privacy officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

"For years now we’ve been hearing about the promise - and the threat—of databases, biometrics, smart cards, and other information technology breakthroughs. Finally, someone has cut through all the jargon, the techno-babble, and the right-left rhetoric and looked at it all with common sense and a clear eye. Jim Harper has produced a thoughtful, fast-paced, enjoyable tour through this brave new world that will become the source book for the ongoing debate."
Steven Brill, CEO of Verified Identity Pass and author of After: How America Confronted the September 12th Era

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Author Jim Harper
ISBN# 1-930865-85-6
Type Quality Paperback
Year 2006
Pages 280
Illustrated no
Base Cost 7.00
Price: $9.95

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