
With privacy and government surveillance being increasingly salient issues in the discussion around biometric technologies, industry stakeholders may be overlooking the importance of political partisanship in the discourse, suggests a recent Scientific American op-ed by Samuel Dooley, Angelica Goetzen, and Elissa M. Redmiles, affiliates of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.
Citing their own, broad-reaching study based on survey data collected during the summers of 2020 and 2021, the authors argue that while a shrinking number of Americans support warrantless government surveillance, their attitudes aren’t based on a principled view of privacy rights but rather on a partisan fear of ‘the other’.
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