Reframing biometric surveillance: from a means of inspection to a form of control

Bosses without a heart: socio-demographic and cross-cultural determinants of attitude toward Emotional AI in the workplace

“…Although there exists a growing body of literature on digital surveillance in the workplace (Ball 2010 ; Marciano 2019 ; Rosenblat 2018 ; Manokha 2020 ; Moore and Woodcock 2021 ), the impact of EAI on workers, managers and the labor process is understudied apart from Andrew McStay’s seminal book, Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media . This article identifies two major streams of interest evolving out of affect-driven automated management systems.…”

The ethical application of biometric facial recognition technology

“…Biometric technologies are part of a shift taking place in society towards automated decision-making processes that involve limited human intervention. While current literature on the subject notes that the ‘displacement of agency from humans to machines, raises ethical questions about mediated social sorting and discrimination’ (Marciano 2019 ; 134), it is more often focused on sociological analysis of the issues and there is a gap in applied ethical analysis that can provide a foundation for law and policy solutions.…”

Precarious migrants, migration regimes and digital technologies: the empowerment-control nexus

“…The 'technologization of control and monitoring functions' (Ceyhan 2010) potentially undermines illegalised and undocumented migrants dealing with constant deportability (De Genova 2002Genova , 2007. However, the ways in which different actorssuch as border police, migrants or hacktivistsuse and experience biometrics is of particular importance (Grünenberg et al 2020) for understanding 'potential harms' they can provoke (Marciano 2019). Moreover, as Whyte (2020) pointed out, it is also necessary to take into account that biometrics also concern social and cultural imaginaries.…”