sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies
Abstract
This paper explores the commodification of privacy through biometric technology in the United States. It examines the impact of this technology on poor women of color (WOC), arguing that poor WOC face intersectional discrimination based on the convergence of sex, race, and class in their identities. I highlight the unique and powerful intrusion of biometric technology into the lives of poor WOC, and argue that the connection between data and the physical body created through biometric data has formed an environment in which the state wields unrestricted control in all spheres over the privacy of poor WOC.
Publication Date
2021
Recommended Citation
Saylor, Lilith A.
(2021)
"Suspicion Encoded: Women of Color and Biometric Technology in the United States,"
sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies: Vol. 14, Article 4.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/sprinkle/vol14/iss1/4
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