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"Active citizenship is now realized not primarily in voting or participating in an idealized political public sphere, [Nikolas] Rose argues, but through consumption, employment, financial transactions, and other pracitices, virtuall all o which require the verification of legitimate identity" (Gates, 2011, p. 34).

References:

Gates, K A. (2011). Our biometric future: Facial recognition technology and the culture of surveillance. New York: New York UP.