Kelly A GatesKelly A. Gates is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance (2011), as wel as the editor of International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, Vol. 6: Media Studies Futures (2013) and The New Media of Surveillance (2009). Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Surveillance & Society, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Social Semiotics. Read More Read Less