Abstract
The European Union is increasingly using and experimenting biometric technologies for border control. The combination of data proceeding from diverse bodily sources, like iris, fingerprints, and face recognition among others, as well as the potential integration of behavioral markers raise a series of questions concerning individual data protection and privacy rights. Beyond those issues, however, biometrics poses challenges regarding the very definition of the human and the body. The so called “failures to enroll” at capturing biometric data reveal a construction of the “normal” body, while other bodies appear as less technologically compatible. This construction is reproducing assumptions that are deeply engraved in the Eurocentric imaginary, where the non-European other is constructed as being closer to “nature”. At the same time, it reveals the realm towards which contemporary border struggles and the possibility of contestation and resistance are being displaced, namely the very own body.
Highlights
Las tecnologías biométricas de control de fronteras están siendo crecientemente investigadas y empleadas por la Unión Europea
The combination of data proceeding from diverse bodily sources, like iris, fngerprints, and face recognition among others, as well as the potential integration of behavioral markers raise a series of questions concerning individual data protection and privacy rights
Biometrics poses challenges regarding the very defnition of the human and the body
Summary
La combinación de información digitalizada proveniente de diversas fuentes corporales (iris, huellas dactilares, reconocimiento facial entre otras) así como de potenciales indicadores conductuales plantean una serie de preguntas en términos del derecho a la privacidad y la pro tección de la integridad individual. Más allá de estas cuestiones, sin embargo, la biometría plantea interrogantes complejos en relación al estatuto mismo del cuerpo y de lo humano. Las llamadas “anomalías de registro” en la captura de datos biométricos revelan una construcción del cuerpo humano “normal”, mientras que otros son producidos como menos compatibles tecnológicamente. Esta construcción reproduce supuestos fuertemente asentados en el imaginario eurocéntrico, que construyen al otro no europeo como un ser cercano a la naturaleza. Señala el ámbito al que se desplazan las disputas y desobediencias futuras, que es el del cuerpo mismo
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