Bomb Body Politics: On the TSA's Algorithmic Policing of Gender

Forthcoming, University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

6 Pages Posted: 27 Jul 2022

Date Written: July 19, 2022

Abstract

Long before FAccT or ProPublica’s COMPAS reporting or Andrew Ferguson's book, the Department of Homeland Security was using sexist, racist algorithms to determine who to subject to additional screening. The algorithms that were built into these technologies are used to justify the systems of policing that were already in place. In this essay adapted from remarks delivered at the Technology, Media, Privacy, and the Law Conference in 2022, the TSAs discriminatory practices against transgender people serve as a cautionary tale for surveillance reformers who risk entrenching violence against the "wrong" bodies to protect the "right" ones.

Suggested Citation

Albert, Kendra and Smith-Carrington, Avatara, Bomb Body Politics: On the TSA's Algorithmic Policing of Gender (July 19, 2022). Forthcoming, University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4167103

Kendra Albert (Contact Author)

Harvard Law School ( email )

1563 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

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