摘要: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.