Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders
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چکیده
In 2020, the European Union announced award of contract for biometric part new database border control, Entry Exit System, to two companies: IDEMIA and Sopra Steria. Both companies had been previously involved in development databases migration management. While there has a growing amount publicly available documents that show what kind technologies are being implemented, how much money, by whom, limited engagement with digital methods this field. Moreover, critical security scholarship largely focused on qualitative ethnographic methods. Building data feminist approach, we propose transdisciplinary methodology goes beyond binaries qualitative/quantitative opacity/transparency, examines power asymmetries makes labour coding visible. Empirically, build analyse dataset contracts awarded agencies key its management policies – Agency Large-Scale Information Systems (eu-LISA) Border Coast Guard (Frontex). We supplement analysis visualisation networks close reading tender documents. so doing, can be device making datafication ‘intelligible’ at borders.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Big Data & Society
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2053-9517']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221124586