Johnson Paul, Williams Robin
Department of Sociology, Surrey University, Guilford, United Kingdom.
Ann Ist Super Sanita. 2007;43(1):36-43.
The recent loss of confidence in textual and verbal methods for validating the identity claims of individual subjects has resulted in growing interest in the use of biometric technologies to establish corporeal uniqueness. Once established, this foundational certainty allows changing biographies and shifting category memberships to be anchored to unchanging bodily surfaces, forms or features. One significant source for this growth has been the "securitization" agendas of nation states that attempt the greater control and monitoring of population movement across geographical borders. Among the wide variety of available biometric schemes, DNA profiling is regarded as a key method for discerning and recording embodied individuality. This paper discusses the current limitations on the use of DNA profiling in civil identification practices and speculates on future uses of the technology with regard to its interoperability with other biometric databasing systems.
最近，人们对用于验证个体身份声明的文本和口头方法的信心丧失，导致对使用生物识别技术来确立身体唯一性的兴趣日益浓厚。一旦确立，这种基本的确定性就能使不断变化的个人经历和不断变化的类别归属与不变的身体表面、形态或特征联系起来。这种增长的一个重要来源是民族国家的“安全化”议程，这些议程试图对跨越地理边界的人口流动进行更大程度的控制和监测。在各种各样可用的生物识别方案中，DNA 分析被视为识别和记录具体个体特征的关键方法。本文讨论了 DNA 分析在民事身份识别实践中的当前局限性，并推测了该技术未来在与其他生物识别数据库系统的互操作性方面的用途。
