Please Explain: Electronic Identification

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
We venture behind the scenes of electronic identification devices…and who’s watching you…on Please Explain. Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Torin Monahan is an Assistant Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University and Editor of Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. Call 212-433-9692.

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